Re: [LAD] Audio vs ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe mobo

Greetings; Up2date reinstall of the latest FU8 respin. The various audio devices found by an lspci -vv on this mobo are: ====== 00:06.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81f6 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max) Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 21 Region 0: Memory at fe024000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask+ 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Masking: 00000000 Pending: 00000000 Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+ Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel ====== 01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device 1001 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium Latency: 32 (500ns min, 5000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: I/O ports at ac00 [size=64] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Kernel driver in use: EMU10K1_Audigy Kernel modules: snd-emu10k1 ======= 03:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device aa10 Subsystem: Diamond Multimedia Systems Unknown device aa10 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at fddfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [58] Express (v1) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset- DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot- LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+ ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information <?> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel ======= And there is also a pcHDTV-3000 which has a connexant audio but its obviously a mic level output, and since tvtime doesn't work on the video card associated with the last device listed above, the point is moot till it does work. The first device above I have not been able to get a peep out of, so I've made the second one, the Audigy2, the default. And I have NDI where to plug anything that looks like audio into that ATI based HD-2400-Pro video card, but lspci says its there. Testing the sound for the audigy2 in system-config-soundcard works, but places like utube are silent. As is cnn et all since the last reboot. 2 questions: do we have a 'vu meter' that can be switched to monitor the various audio inputs? And when I had to reinstall, I see that pulseaudio was installed, and a now frozen 'lsof|grep audio' returns this, but has not returned a prompt. [root@coyote cards]# lsof |grep audio pulseaudi 3473 root txt REG 8,3 57972 53801556 /usr/bin/pulseaudio artsd 3528 root mem REG 8,3 96380 53795593 /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2.4 artsd 3528 root mem REG 8,3 171580 5603705 /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0.0.2 Is this yet another case where I need to remove as much PA as I can in order to get working sound again, or is there a configurator for this PITA that might be able to fix this? The silence here is deafening. Thanks.