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