The recent 'upgrade' in Kubuntu 11.10 broke my sound system, (was working at freshly installed 11.10, no sound at 11.10 + suggested package upgrades).

I FINALLY figured out that I could boot into a Ubuntu install, look at the AlsaMixer settings that work for six speaker audio, and then boot back into Kubuntu and use those settings (53 of them!). This worked and I now have six speaker audio (not sure if it is decoding 5.1) and it sounds good. It seems the recent Kubuntu alsa upgrades attempted to configure my mixer and failed for the emu10k1 / E-MU 1616m external dock combination. Below I show the alsamixer settings that work for my system (under Ubuntu 11.10 or Kubuntu 11.10)

Good Luck!

EMU 1010b PCI sound card with
E-MU 1616m external dock

From Ubuntu 11.10 working with 5.1 audio,
left to right, alsamixer configuration settings

Num Config Setting Name Setting
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1 Master 71
2 Tone MM
3 Bass 50
4 Treble 50
5 PCM 100
6 PCM Center 100
7 PCM Frount 100
8 PCM LFE 100
9 PCM Side 100
10 PCM Surround 100
11 Frount 100
12 Surround 100
13 Center 49
14 LFE 49
15 Side 100
16 Synth 46
17 Line 0
18 CD 0
19 Mic 0
20 S/PDIF Optical 0
21 S/PDIF Optical Raw MM
22 Aux 0
23 0202 DAC Left dsp 0
24 0202 DAC Right dsp 1
25 1010 ADAT 0 dsp 0
26 1010 ADAT 1 dsp 1
27 1010 ADAT 2 dsp 2
28 1010 ADAT 3 dsp 3
29 1010 ADAT 4 dsp 4
30 1010 ADAT 5 dsp 5
31 1010 ADAT 6 dsp 6
32 1010 ADAT 7 dsp 7
33 1010 SPDIF Left dsp 0
34 1010 SPDIF Right dsp 1
35 Analog Mix 0
36 Clock Internal Rate 48000
37 DAC1 0202 pad off MM
38 DAC1 Audio Dock pad 0
39 DAC2 Audio Dock pad 0
40 DAC3 Audio Dock pad 0
41 DAC4 Audio Dock pad 0
42 Dock DAC 1 Left dsp 0
43 Dock DAC 1 Right dsp 1
44 Dock DAC 2 Left dsp 2
45 Dock DAC 2 Right dsp 3
46 Dock DAC 3 Left dsp 4
47 Dock DAC 3 Right dsp 5
48 Dock DAC 4 Left dsp 6
49 Dock DAC 4 Right dsp 7
50 Dock Phones Left dsp 0
51 Dock Phones Right dsp 1
52 Dock SPDIF Left dsp 0
53 Dock SPDIF Left dsp 1

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