Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide

[rennen01]

I am going to purchase a new card this week. Wish me luck.

[Innova]

My SPDIF output is not working at all. I have searched these forums, and nothing that I have found has worked for me.

I have a EPoX 9NPA nForce4 based motherboard. I do have sound through the Line-out (lime green) jack, but the optical spdif is not working at all. I do have this computer hooked up to my home theater, so getting this to work is crucial.

Here is the output from aplay -l:

wesley@mediacenter:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia CK804]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CK804 [NVidia CK804], device 2: Intel ICH - IEC958 [NVidia CK804 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


When I try speaker-test -c6, the program runs fine, and I get output through the line-out, but nothing through the optical out. I also tried: speaker-test -c6 -Dplug:surround51

And this errors out:

wesley@mediacenter:~$ speaker-test -c6 -Dplug:surround51

speaker-test 1.0.11

Playback device is plug:surround51
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 3 to 5461
Period size range from 3 to 5461
Using max buffer size 5461
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 5461
was set buffer_size = 5461
buffer to small, could not use
Unable to determine current swparams for playback: Input/output error
Setting of swparams failed: Input/output error


I have tried various different .asoundrc files, but none of them seemed to help.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get my spdif to work?

This is the only thing that I don't have working now. Does anyone have any ideas?

[weedos]

I have EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra nForce4 based motherboard and i have no sound at all! i tried everything, but no succes. everything seems to be ok, but there is no sound at all. any ideas what to try, or to do?
here are specifications of soundcard:
Integrated Audio

* Selectable 2, 6 or 8-CH audio from onboard Realtek ALC850 AC'97 version 2.3 compliant CODEC width 18-bit ADC and 16-bit DAC resolution
* Support AUX-in, CD-in, S/PDIF-in and S/PDIF-out
* Rear Panel audio jacks configuration:
o For 2-channel mode; stereo Line-out (Lime), stereo Line-In (Light blue) and Mic-In (Pink)
o For 6-channel mode; Front stereo-out (Lime), Rear stereo-out (Light blue), Center and Sub-woofer (Pink)
o For 8-channel mode; stereo Line-In (Light blue), Mic-In (Pink), Front Stereo-out (Lime), Rear stereo-out (Black), Center and Sub-woofer (Orange) and Side stereo-out (Gray)
* Support Front panel audio for Mic-In and stereo Line-Out only. (Front panel Line-out electrically shared with rear panel Line-out).
* Support Auto Jack Sensing for fool-proof audio device installation
* Coaxial S/PDIF-out available on rear panel
http://www.epox.nl/products/view.php?product_id=271

[Innova]

I have EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra nForce4 based motherboard and i have no sound at all! i tried everything, but no succes. everything seems to be ok, but there is no sound at all. any ideas what to try, or to do?
here are specifications of soundcard:
Integrated Audio

* Selectable 2, 6 or 8-CH audio from onboard Realtek ALC850 AC'97 version 2.3 compliant CODEC width 18-bit ADC and 16-bit DAC resolution
* Support AUX-in, CD-in, S/PDIF-in and S/PDIF-out
* Rear Panel audio jacks configuration:
o For 2-channel mode; stereo Line-out (Lime), stereo Line-In (Light blue) and Mic-In (Pink)
o For 6-channel mode; Front stereo-out (Lime), Rear stereo-out (Light blue), Center and Sub-woofer (Pink)
o For 8-channel mode; stereo Line-In (Light blue), Mic-In (Pink), Front Stereo-out (Lime), Rear stereo-out (Black), Center and Sub-woofer (Orange) and Side stereo-out (Gray)
* Support Front panel audio for Mic-In and stereo Line-Out only. (Front panel Line-out electrically shared with rear panel Line-out).
* Support Auto Jack Sensing for fool-proof audio device installation
* Coaxial S/PDIF-out available on rear panel
http://www.epox.nl/products/view.php?product_id=271

What output are you using? As I posted above, my normal line-out works fine out of the box, but my spdif is not working at all.

[weedos]

i use standart output, stereo Line-out (lime) and no sound at all.

[Raein]

hi, maybe i post my problem too

I followed this help guide https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Hd...ht=%28sound%29 but no luck i still can't hear any sounds. I already install the stable and the development driver of alsa but no luck. I installed opensuse but the same problem that i encountered in kubuntu.

here is some of the configuration...

lshw

*-multimedia
             description: Audio device
             product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1b
             bus info: pci@00:1b.0
             version: 04
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=HDA Intel
             resources: iomemory:b0000000-b0003fff irq:11

lspci -v

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
        Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Unknown device 3741
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC260 Analog [ALC260 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC260 Digital [ALC260 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

/etc/modules

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

lp
sbp2

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

# autoloader aliases
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0
install sound-slot-1 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-1
install sound-slot-2 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-2
install sound-slot-3 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-3
install sound-slot-4 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-4
install sound-slot-5 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-5
install sound-slot-6 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-6
install sound-slot-7 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-7

# Cause optional modules to be loaded above generic modules
install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe -Qb snd-ioctl32 ; : ; }
install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe -Qb snd-pcm-oss ; : ; }
install snd-mixer /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-mixer $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --Qb snd-mixer-oss ; : ; }
install snd-seq /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-seq $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe -Qb snd-seq-midi ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq-oss ; : ; }

# Cause optional modules to be loaded above sound card driver modules
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe -Qb snd-emu10k1-synth ; }
install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe -Qb snd-seq ; }

# Load saa7134-alsa instead of saa7134 (which gets dragged in by it anyway)
install saa7134 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install saa7134 $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe -Qb saa7134-alsa ; : ; }
# Prevent abnormal drivers from grabbing index 0
options snd-hda-intel model=laptop
options snd-bt87x index=-2
options snd-atiixp-modem index=-2
options snd-intel8x0m index=-2
options snd-via82xx-modem index=-2
options snd-usb-audio index=-2
options snd-usb-usx2y index=-2

Please can anyone help us

[Shampyon]

My problem's fixed. I reinstalled, this time with the onboard sound card (which my mobo manufacturer claimed didn't exist!) switched off at BIOS.

Everything's working like a charm now.

[Raein]

the laptop bios is a phoenix technology, and there is no option of disabling the sound.

[rennen01]

I have sound! And all I had to do was buy a new card

Either way now I don't have to go back into XP just to listen to music.

[nim278]

What sort of card did you have before and what kind did you buy now?