[SOLVED]Sound problem - almost fixed

[grambottle]

I'm [still] trying to make my SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum work. Under kmix, I can select it and set its volume levels and such but I believe the problem actually lies with the alsa drivers / mixer. It keeps trying to use the on-board soundcard of the motherboard instead of my audigy2.

When I type

cat /proc/asound/modules

I get

 0 snd_via82xx
 1 snd_emu10k1

I'm guessing the emu10k1 is the audigy 2.


My "aplay -l" returns what is at the bottom of this post and attached is the alsa-base file. Any ideas?

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
 Subdevices: 3/4
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
 Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
 Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Audigy2 [Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]], device 0: emu10k1 [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
 Subdevices: 32/32
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
 Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
 Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
 Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
 Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
 Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
 Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
 Subdevice #8: subdevice #8
 Subdevice #9: subdevice #9
 Subdevice #10: subdevice #10
 Subdevice #11: subdevice #11
 Subdevice #12: subdevice #12
 Subdevice #13: subdevice #13
 Subdevice #14: subdevice #14
 Subdevice #15: subdevice #15
 Subdevice #16: subdevice #16
 Subdevice #17: subdevice #17
 Subdevice #18: subdevice #18
 Subdevice #19: subdevice #19
 Subdevice #20: subdevice #20
 Subdevice #21: subdevice #21
 Subdevice #22: subdevice #22
 Subdevice #23: subdevice #23
 Subdevice #24: subdevice #24
 Subdevice #25: subdevice #25
 Subdevice #26: subdevice #26
 Subdevice #27: subdevice #27
 Subdevice #28: subdevice #28
 Subdevice #29: subdevice #29
 Subdevice #30: subdevice #30
 Subdevice #31: subdevice #31
card 1: Audigy2 [Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]], device 2: emu10k1 efx [Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
 Subdevices: 8/8
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
 Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
 Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
 Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
 Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
 Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
 Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: Audigy2 [Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]], device 3: emu10k1 [Multichannel Playback]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Audigy2 [Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]], device 4: p16v [p16v]
 Subdevices: 1/1
 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[dibl]

Re: Sound problem - almost fixed

Does your BIOS allow you to disable the onboard chip?

[grambottle]

Re: Sound problem - almost fixed

It sure does.

That was it! Thanks.

Meanwhile, I coulda sworn I had done that when I had installed my soundcard into Windows... but oh well. It's done now.