[LAU] Soundcard broken? What else can I test

[Clemens Ladisch]

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