[LAU] Are my sound cards really dead?

[mark hadman]

 On 8 May 2010 09:48, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 08 May 2010 04:05:55 Bob van der Poel wrote:
>> I've got 2 dead sound devices and am wondering if there is any way to
>> determine if the death is complete or a software issue?
>>
>> 1. My Audiophile 2496 has been working for years in my computer. A few
>> months ago it just stopped. At the time I figured it was a software
>> upgrade issue with pulseaudio, etc. so I pulled the card

There are (very) longstanding issues with pulseaudio and ice1712 cards
: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/178442
(workarounds included).

If lspci /lsmod (etc) shows that your card is at all alive, I would
agree with the suggestion to try the puredyne live cd/dvd (pulseaudio
not included), or to just try the famous 'cure all ubuntu sound
issues' workaround, which is to kill/uninstall pulseaudio.