On 8 May 2010 09:48, Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 08 May 2010 04:05:55 Bob van der Poel wrote: >> I've got 2 dead sound devices and am wondering if there is any way to >> determine if the death is complete or a software issue? >> >> 1. My Audiophile 2496 has been working for years in my computer. A few >> months ago it just stopped. At the time I figured it was a software >> upgrade issue with pulseaudio, etc. so I pulled the card There are (very) longstanding issues with pulseaudio and ice1712 cards : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/178442 (workarounds included). If lspci /lsmod (etc) shows that your card is at all alive, I would agree with the suggestion to try the puredyne live cd/dvd (pulseaudio not included), or to just try the famous 'cure all ubuntu sound issues' workaround, which is to kill/uninstall pulseaudio. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user