!Help! Can't get SB Live 24 bit external sound in Feisty

[LordAtreus]

I have the Creative lab SB Live! 24 bit external card which connects to my USB port.
It was working fine under Edgy but I dove into Feisty and can't get the darn thing to work properly now.

Strange thing is the unit is detected by Feisty under the sound configuration, however I get no sound from direct USB-AUDIO or ALSA.
Also an odd thing is when I power on the computer the blue light (power) on the unit comes on after grub but quickly goes off again as the rest of the loading continues.
It never did that in edgy.

I've googled the hell out of my problem and can't see anyone else having this issue.
I hope someone can shed some light on what it may be.
I'm thinking it may be some kind of conflict but I get no errors in my logs
Hope someone can help out...


aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: External [SB Live! 24-bit External], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

lsusb -v | grep Cre
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 041e:3040 Creative Technology, Ltd
idVendor 0x041e Creative Technology, Ltd
iManufacturer 1 Creative Technology

lsmod
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 12680 1
ppdev 10116 0
cpufreq_stats 7360 0
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9228 0
cpufreq_userspace 5408 0
cpufreq_conservative 8200 0
freq_table 5792 2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
pcc_acpi 13184 0
tc1100_wmi 8068 0
sony_acpi 6284 0
dev_acpi 12292 0
container 5248 0
asus_acpi 17308 0
battery 10756 0
dock 10268 0
video 16388 0
ac 6020 0
button 8720 0
sbs 15652 0
i2c_ec 5888 1 sbs
backlight 7040 1 asus_acpi
ipv6 268704 10
af_packet 23816 2
nls_utf8 3072 3
ntfs 107764 3
parport_pc 36388 0
lp 12452 0
parport 36936 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
fuse 46612 0
joydev 10816 0
snd_usb_audio 79744 1
snd_pcm_oss 44544 0
snd_mixer_oss 17408 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 79876 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 10888 1 snd_pcm
snd_usb_lib 17280 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_hwdep 9988 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_seq_dummy 4740 0
snd_seq_oss 32896 0
snd_seq_midi 9600 0
snd_rawmidi 25472 2 snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8448 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 52592 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 23684 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9100 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
snd 54020 12 snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,sn d_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer, snd_seq_device
usbhid 26592 0
hid 27392 1 usbhid
soundcore 8672 1 snd
nvidia 6837140 32
xpad 9988 0
agpgart 35400 1 nvidia
pcspkr 4224 0
i2c_nforce2 6784 0
k8temp 6656 0
i2c_core 22784 3 i2c_ec,nvidia,i2c_nforce2
shpchp 34324 0
pci_hotplug 32576 1 shpchp
tsdev 8768 0
evdev 11008 4
ext3 133128 2
jbd 59816 1 ext3
mbcache 9604 1 ext3
sg 36252 0
sd_mod 23428 8
sr_mod 17060 0
cdrom 37664 1 sr_mod
sata_nv 21252 6
pata_amd 14092 0
ata_generic 9092 0
libata 123032 3 sata_nv,pata_amd,ata_generic
scsi_mod 142348 4 sg,sd_mod,sr_mod,libata
floppy 59524 0
ehci_hcd 34188 0
ohci_hcd 22532 0
generic 5124 0 [permanent]
forcedeth 46728 0
usbcore 134280 7 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,usbhid,xpad,ehci_hcd,ohc i_hcd
thermal 14856 0
processor 31048 1 thermal
fan 5636 0
fbcon 42656 0
tileblit 3584 1 fbcon
font 9216 1 fbcon
bitblit 6912 1 fbcon
softcursor 3200 1 bitblit
vesafb 9220 0
capability 5896 0
commoncap 8192 1 capability

[edisman]

I have the exact same issue as described above. Anyone have a solution? I have googled around for answers but can't find anything specifically for this issue.

[TalkJesus]

Same exact problem here

[yurnotsoeviltwin]

Me too. Does anyone have a solution to this? Please?

[TalkJesus]

Can someone please explain how to get this working with complete 5.1 functionality?

[TalkJesus]

ALSA mailing list claimed it was not a bug in their system, but Ubuntu which does sound likely since it did (ALSA) work in Ubuntu 6 according to many others (I did not test myself).

I'm using SB live external 24bit USB.

Did you try the speaker-test like Ingo Mueller recommends? If the test sounds work but system sounds don't it cannot be an ALSA bug. Lee

My response:

It detects my card, or so I assume that is what "usb audio" represents. I do not see actual "sb live 24bit usb" or something of that sort otherwise. Plus, strange that others suddenly have this issue in Ubuntu 7 on the same card?

What I noticed is during boot up, the card's blue light goes on, then later during boot up it goes off, clearly indicating something is not right.

[allyourzigg]

I have this problem too, Generally when I do an UPgrade I expect an upgrade, not a downgrade. not that I'm not happy with most of the things the devs have done so far, but in something thats supposed to be progressing I consider this a major downgrade.

[TalkJesus]

I guess no one cares to help. ALSA denies it, and this community is not really helping.

[allyourzigg]

How can alsa so blatantly ignore this type of bug? It is next to impossible to use this card in any normal way without extraneous setup (that is if you would like to use it with esd or some other sound daemon ). I wish there was some way to bring this usb-audio driver problem to the attention of someone that has the power to do something about it. My system setup would be perfect if it wasn't cursed with this sound problem.

[TalkJesus]

Perhaps you all should email them as I did.