Install sound card driver

[Danny1337]

Hey all, I just installed Kubuntu 8.10, so I have to say I'm all new to it. (Switching from windows)
My built-in motherboard soundcard does work, but I want to use my 5.1 pci soundcard. Because I'm all new to linux, I have no idea how to install the sound card driver. My sound card should be supported because I found it on this page http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...endor-Terratec , it is the "Aureon 5.1" Fun one. I'm still a newbie to all the commands and such. I just have to type a command to download and install this driver?

Thanks

[The Liquidator]

Re: Install sound card driver

The position might be that it is installed already, and it's just that alsa is picking the onboard one.

Go into kmenu (our equivalent of the start button) and select system settings/sounds. Is your soundcard listed there? If so, you can test whether it is working from that screen.

Also, you can set an order of preference although I'm not sure how effective it is. If your pci card works probably the most effective course of action will be to disable the onboard sound in the bios.

[Danny1337]

Re: Install sound card driver

Yeah I think it's there. I see
"NVidia CK8S With ALC655 (NVidia CK8S)" - Probably the onboard one?
"C-Media CMI8738 (Model 55) (C-Media PCI DAC/ADC)"

I set the last one as preferred but that didn't work

[arochester]

Re: Install sound card driver

Did you reboot to allow it to take effect?

[Danny1337]

Re: Install sound card driver

Lol I just rebooted and disabled the onboard one in the bios and it worked. However my sound system uses all the 3 sound inputs on the soundcard but only two of them gives sound so I don't have sound in all the speakers. Any way to set up 5.1 sound?

[Snowhog]

Re: Install sound card driver

Open a console and type:

alsamixer

Assuming Kubuntu recognizes your 5.1 sound card/driver, check all the output channels and ensure none are muted.