[LAU] disabled onboard soundcard - uninstall drivers?

Ludo Beckers lazylew at gmail.com
Sat Dec 6 07:34:15 EST 2008


I've been messing around a bit (2 much?)... first on advice I installed
paconfig.deb
which resulted in not having sound anymore :-(
so, other advice I followed:
sudo apt-get install padevchooser
then alt-F2 to run padevchooser
which didn't help at all, so I tried to undo it by:
pulseaudio -k
this gave this output:
E: main.c: Failed to kill daemon.

so here's the output of the present amixer:

Simple mixer control 'Line in',0
  Capabilities: cvolume
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 255
  Front Left: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
  Capabilities: cvolume
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 255
  Front Left: Capture 183 [72%] [-12.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 183 [72%] [-12.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Phone',0
  Capabilities: cvolume
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 255
  Front Left: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Center/LFE',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 202 [79%] [-1.25dB]
  Front Right: Playback 202 [79%] [-1.25dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Rear',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Unknown',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'Aux',0
  Capabilities: cvolume
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 255
  Front Left: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 207 [81%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Analog Center/LFE',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 204 [80%] [0.75dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 204 [80%] [0.75dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Analog Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 204 [80%] [0.75dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 204 [80%] [0.75dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Analog Rear',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Analog Side',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Analog Source',0
  Capabilities: cenum
  Items: 'Phone' 'Mic' 'Line in' 'Aux'
  Item0: 'Line in'
Simple mixer control 'CAPTURE feedback',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-99999.99dB]
Simple mixer control 'Digital Source',0
  Capabilities: cenum
  Items: 'IEC958 out' 'i2s mixer out' 'IEC958 in' 'i2s in' 'AC97 in' 'SRC
out'
  Item0: 'i2s in'
Simple mixer control 'Shared Mic/Line in',0
  Capabilities: cenum
  Items: 'Line in' 'Mic in'
  Item0: 'Line in'

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:

> Please post the output of  "amixer".
>
> Lee
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Ludo Beckers <lazylew at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As far as I can tell all controls are unmuted and with sliders at least
> > halfway.
> >
> > In System-Preferences-Sound-Devices all are set "autodetect" except:
> > Sound Capture --> ALSA and
> > Default Mixer Tracks --> CAO106 'Alsa Mixer)
> >
> > The mouse-over pop up of the Volume Control reads: Analog Center/LFE:
> 86%.
> >
> > In the volume control (CAO106 Alsa Mixer)  there's 2 tabs:
> > Playback --> IEC958 Front
> > Recording --> Line In _ Microphone
> >
> > In Menu-File (change device) I have:
> > - (marked) 0: CAO106 Alsa mixer
> > (following ones all unmarked)
> > - 1: mixer OO (OSS)
> > - 2: Playback: ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
> > - 3: Capture: Monitor Source of ALSA  PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA
> > (PulseAudio Mixer)
> > - 4: Capture: ALSA PCM on front: O (CAO106) via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer)
> >
> > In Menu-Preferences "select tracks to be visible these 3 are marked:
> > Line In, Microphone and IEC958 Front
> > There's a whole bunch there unmarked: phone, IEC958 (variants:
> Center/LFE,
> > Rear, Unknown), Aux, Analog (variants: Center/LFE, Front, Rear, Side,
> > Source), Capture Feedback, Digital Source, Shared Mic/Line.
> >
> > That's probably too much info, but I hope the wrong setting is detectable
> > here.
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Roger E <gurusonic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Ludo Beckers wrote:
> >>>
> >>> (Ubuntu Hardy)
> >>> Having problems with my new soundcard Audigy (Creative Soundblaster)
> with
> >>> recording through the microphone. Playback for .wav, ogg, etc. works
> good.
> >>> I can't record in Sound Recorder nore Audacity nore use it with Skype.
> >>>
> >>> The Volume Control is a mystery to me because there are too many
> strange
> >>> meaningless names (LFE and "front end" and much more).
> >>>
> >>> I disabled the onboard soundcard in the BIOS, but read something on
> >>> Google about disabling the drivers for it too might be a good idea.
> >>>
> >>> How do I find which and where those drivers are? and does it make a
> >>> difference uninstalling them?
> >>>
> >> The volume control is probably the answer. In the Input section, make
> sure
> >> Mic and Capture are unmuted with the volume sliders raised.
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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