I figured the internal chip on my mobo is indeed fried.. with the new card I only get sound out of the right channel.. if I gain the left channel in alsamixer I can still here the noise floor rising so it shouldn't be another fauly chip. I've tried to remove my .asoundrc and /var/lib/alsa/asound without luck. When I start it with jack it's the same thing, and I can also only see 2 outputs even tho it's a 7.1 channel device. But that's not all catastrophic as I only use 2 channels anyway.. but it probably have something to do with the main issue. It's a cheapo 7.1 pci card from logilink with some VIA chip. 01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI Multi-Channel Audio Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: VIA Technologies Inc. Device 2403 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [size=32] Region 1: I/O ports at d880 [size=128] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: snd_ice1724 [alex@burken ~]$ cat /proc/asound/pcm 01-00: ICE1724 : ICE1724 : playback 1 : capture 1 01-01: ICE1724 IEC958 : ICE1724 IEC958 : playback 1 : capture 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user