[LAU] Soundcard broken? What else can I test
Clemens Ladisch
clemens at ladisch.de
Wed Feb 1 09:45:49 UTC 2012
Julien Claassen wrote:
> I rebooted a couple of times. The first time, no Delta soundcard at all.
This indicates a hardware problem with either the mainboard, the slot,
or the sound card.
> Rebooted, found the soundcard. But the alsamixer settings were a bit
> wrong. [...]
This would be a symptom of some of the chip's registers not actually
working.
> All the volume levels are check.
Some mixer controls cannot be read from the hardware, so the driver just
reports the last value it has written.
> what else can I do, to eliminate possibilities
The only remaining possibility is the ICE1712 chip on the sound card.
It's busted.
Regards,
Clemens
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