Mute Gusty Gibon

[ndeniche]

I recently changed my Desktop PC from Windows XP to Ubuntu 7.10 (yay for me!), but, i had several issues... one of them (the less urgent) is that my Creative Audigy SoundBlaster 0090 doesn't show any signs of life... though, the interesting part is that it is fully installed and fully recognized by ubuntu... i've tried installing every related package, including the ALSA related, but nothing works... so any help would be appreciated...

[John A]

Can you post the results of running lspci and lsmod at the terminal? Also, you might want to play around with alsamixer (another command-line program). You can toggle the mute status of a channel by hitting the 'm' key, up and down arrows control the volume, left and right change which channel is currently selected, and 'escape' exits the program.

[ndeniche]

how specific do you need it? with hexadecimals and everything?

[John A]

Just copy and paste the output that results from running those commands.

[ndeniche]

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)
00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 03)
00:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] (Secondary)

[John A]

Well, I'd definitely agree with you that your audio card's been detected. What's the output of lsmod ?

[ndeniche]

that's the lspci output...

the following is the lsmod output:

Module                  Size  Used by
nls_cp437               6784  1 
isofs                  36412  1 
udf                    87204  0 
af_packet              24840  2 
fglrx                 656352  15 
ipv6                  273892  12 
rfcomm                 42136  2 
l2cap                  26240  11 rfcomm
bluetooth              57060  4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev                  10244  0 
speedstep_lib           6404  0 
cpufreq_stats           7232  0 
cpufreq_powersave       2688  0 
cpufreq_userspace       5280  0 
cpufreq_ondemand        9612  0 
freq_table              5792  2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
cpufreq_conservative     8072  0 
sbs                    19592  0 
dock                   10656  0 
container               5504  0 
button                  8976  0 
video                  18060  0 
ac                      6148  0 
battery                11012  0 
sbp2                   24072  0 
lp                     12580  0 
sg                     36764  0 
snd_via82xx            29848  0 
snd_mpu401_uart         9984  1 snd_via82xx
sr_mod                 17828  1 
snd_seq_dummy           4996  0 
snd_seq_oss            35712  0 
snd_emu10k1_synth       8448  0 
snd_emux_synth         36736  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi         8448  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul       7936  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1           139296  2 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_midi            9728  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      8576  3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi            26112  4 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi
snd_ac97_codec        101284  2 snd_via82xx,snd_emu10k1
parport_pc             37412  1 
parport                37448  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
ac97_bus                3456  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            44800  0 
snd_mixer_oss          18048  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                81156  4 snd_via82xx,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc         11272  3 snd_via82xx,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            6016  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
serio_raw               8068  0 
snd_hwdep              10628  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
pcspkr                  4224  0 
snd_seq                54640  9 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              24580  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          9740  8 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
i2c_viapro             10004  0 
i2c_core               26112  1 i2c_viapro
psmouse                39952  0 
snd                    56708  18 snd_via82xx,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
emu10k1_gp              4736  0 
gameport               16776  3 snd_via82xx,emu10k1_gp
soundcore               8800  1 snd
shpchp                 34580  0 
pci_hotplug            32704  1 shpchp
via_agp                11264  1 
agpgart                35016  2 fglrx,via_agp
evdev                  11136  4 
ext3                  133896  1 
jbd                    60456  1 ext3
mbcache                 9732  1 ext3
ide_cd                 32672  0 
cdrom                  37536  2 sr_mod,ide_cd
ide_disk               18560  3 
usb_storage            73024  1 
libusual               18448  1 usb_storage
via82cxxx              10372  0 [permanent]
ide_core              116804  4 ide_cd,ide_disk,usb_storage,via82cxxx
sata_via               12548  0 
floppy                 60004  0 
via_rhine              25992  0 
mii                     6528  1 via_rhine
ehci_hcd               36492  0 
ata_generic             8452  0 
libata                125168  2 sata_via,ata_generic
scsi_mod              147084  5 sbp2,sg,sr_mod,usb_storage,libata
uhci_hcd               26640  0 
usbcore               138632  5 usb_storage,libusual,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
ohci1394               36528  0 
ieee1394               96312  2 sbp2,ohci1394
thermal                14344  0 
processor              32072  1 thermal
fan                     5764  0 
fuse                   47124  1 
apparmor               40728  0 
commoncap               8320  1 apparmor

[John A]

Have you checked that all your channels are unmuted with alsamixer ?

[ndeniche]

all of them are unmuted except for Mic Boost , Optical Raw , Audigy Analog Output Jack , and External Amplifier

[ndeniche]

they're not actually unmuted... but it won't let me raise their volume