No sound on Ubuntu 10.04 - Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster

[fernandomm]

Hi,

I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 but i get no sound at all. My sound card is Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster.

Some info

# lspci -v
04:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster
    Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a006
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22
    I/O ports at 9000 [size=32]
    Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
    Kernel driver in use: CA0106
    Kernel modules: snd-ca0106

$ sudo aplay -l
**** Lista de Dispositivos PLAYBACK Hardware ****
placa 0: CA0106 [CA0106], dispositivo 0: ca0106 [CA0106]
  Dispositivo secundário: 1/1
  Dispositivo secundário #0: subdevice #0
placa 0: CA0106 [CA0106], dispositivo 1: ca0106 [CA0106]
  Dispositivo secundário: 1/1
  Dispositivo secundário #0: subdevice #0
placa 0: CA0106 [CA0106], dispositivo 2: ca0106 [CA0106]
  Dispositivo secundário: 1/1
  Dispositivo secundário #0: subdevice #0
placa 0: CA0106 [CA0106], dispositivo 3: ca0106 [CA0106]
  Dispositivo secundário: 1/1
  Dispositivo secundário #0: subdevice #0

I have checked sound config multiple times with alsamixer and it is not muted.

Any ideas of what is causing this problem and how i can get sound? It is the only thing that is not working here.

Thanks!

[canadean84]

I have the same soundcard and the same problems. I've run through many of the sound problem troubleshooting tutorials that people have written. Ubuntu lucid lynx shows my soundcard in the Sysinfo program I downloaded through the Ubuntu Software Centre.

fernandomm, I notice that your post was back in May... have you found a solution yet?

[fernandomm]

Hello,

No, unfortunately i did not found any solution for this issue. I ended up installing and using Windows 7.

[Sofox]

I have the same issue.
It was working perfectly on a fresh install of Ubuntu, but somtime in the last few weeks it stopped working.

To test, I put in an Ubuntu Live CD and had the sound working perfectly on it, back to my install and no such luck.

EDIT: Solution: Uninstalled pulseaudio, restarted, deleted .pulse files in home directory, reinstalled pulseaudio, restarted.

It got everything working.

EDIT2: Also, previously I downgraded gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio from 0.10.21-1ubuntu3 to 0.10.21-1ubuntu2. I had tried that as a solution earlier before I tried the above. It may have been part of the solution, since I earlier suspected that upgrade of causing the damage.

[gdesilva]

I had Soundblaster Audigy NX2 working till yesterday - did a regular update and now it is not working.

It is still being detected as a USB device. I went through the tutorials and tried various suggestions but no luck. The device is in mute state although the audio control app and alsamixer both claim that it is not muted.

Any suggestions??

[gdesilva]

I just fixed my problem. When I started up alsamixer I noticed that the source for 'Digital Out' has been set to PCM instead of Front. Once this was corrected all came good.

[cblair2k2]

I have the same issue.
It was working perfectly on a fresh install of Ubuntu, but somtime in the last few weeks it stopped working.

To test, I put in an Ubuntu Live CD and had the sound working perfectly on it, back to my install and no such luck.

EDIT: Solution: Uninstalled pulseaudio, restarted, deleted .pulse files in home directory, reinstalled pulseaudio, restarted.

It got everything working.

EDIT2: Also, previously I downgraded gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio from 0.10.21-1ubuntu3 to 0.10.21-1ubuntu2. I had tried that as a solution earlier before I tried the above. It may have been part of the solution, since I earlier suspected that upgrade of causing the damage.

I just did that, uninstalled pulse, restart, delete home files, reinstalled and restarted and works perfectly. I was having choppy audio and it would randomly quit!

Thanks! (on Ubuntu 10.10 w/ CA0106)

[3L33T]

EDIT2: Also, previously I downgraded gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio from 0.10.21-1ubuntu3 to 0.10.21-1ubuntu2. I had tried that as a solution earlier before I tried the above. It may have been part of the solution, since I earlier suspected that upgrade of causing the damage.

new kernel and pulseaudio updates ALWAYS HAS BEEN my the cause of my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and CA0106 audio and mic issues. Everytime there is a new update, I fear it will break an already working Ubuntu 10.04 pulseaudio machine. IT NEVER fails! and it is very frustrating because most of the time, I dont remember what I did the last time to fix this. Very very frustrating!

Enough with the rant...

I HAD a working audio and mic, skype was working perfectly etc etc until the latest updates. Now, my audio and mic isnt working at all. I tried the above suggestions (remove pulseaudio, remove .pulseaudio, reboot...etc etc) but it didnt work for me. THERE HAS GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY to use the CA0106 + Ubuntu 10.04 other than switching back to a Windows machine!

[LuizMagnoGaloDoido]

Guys read it:

Making Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster work on Ubuntu Linux

Steps:
Install GNOME Alsa Mixer
sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer
Now open GNOME ALSA Mixer from Applications -> Sound & Video -> GNOME ALSA Mixer
Choose the tab: “CA0106…”
Turn on “Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack”
=> Deselect IEC958


Works fine for me...

[mmstick]

I can't even launch gnome-alsamixer without it segfaulting. Can't get sound with my Creative Recon3D (CA0132). The best I can get is repeating static.