I have realized a little more of what is going on with my system. Please pardon my naive questions. First, I found that pulseaudio does not recognize my sound card. It only sees the graphics card (which apparently provides audio output). I guess that makes this a problem that is off-topic for this list. The pulseaudio device chooser does not show the soundcard at all. I also found that my card has been the subject of some recent discussion in alsa-devel (http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2009-October/022080.html). It seems that the card may be a poor choice even if I got pulseaudio to recognize it. I am willing to replace the card in order to solve this problem. Audio is one of my top priorities for this computer. I am going through the sound card list at http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Alsa_Preferred_Soundcards. If anyone happens to be doing some basic multitrack recording using the combination of Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit, ALSA, jack, and Ardour I would appreciate hearing what soundcard is working for you. Thanks for your help. Peter On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Peter Desjardins <peter.desjardins.us@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > > I have a new Dell Inspiron and I am running Ubuntu Studio 9.10, 64bit. > I cannot play any sound at all from the computer using Ubuntu. The > dual-booted Windows 7 will play music files and all other sounds > without any trouble. > > I've been working through troubleshooting procedures and searching the > web but I am not sure I am understanding the situation correctly or > which direction I should head. Your advice would be much appreciated. > > The sound card is a Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio. My web > searching seems to indicate that the card is not supported by ALSA. > However, it's not entirely clear to me because X-Fi in general is > supported. Searching the web shows that some people have been able to > make the card work under Ubuntu but their solutions haven't worked for > me. > > I have followed the troubleshooting steps at > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting#Basic%20Troubleshooting%20Steps. > The codec for the soundcard is Creative CA0110-IBG which does not > appear in the ALSA-Configuration.txt for my ALSA version, 1.0.20 > (http://tinyurl.com/yzmu498). Since I didn't find what the correct > configuration for my card is, I did not alter the existing > configuration. > > Also, the graphics card is listed as an audio device (ATI Technologies > Inc R700 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4000 Series]). If I select this card > for sound output in the sound preferences control, there is still no > audio output. > > Is this a situation in which I will need to replace the sound card? > Is there an alternate driver/configuration I should try for the X-Fi > Xtreme Audio? Is there a different set of troubleshooting steps I > should work through? > > Thanks for your help. Any guidance will be very helpful. > > Peter > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
