This Creative Labs EMU1212m PCIe is a brand new (March-2013) purchase, a EMU1010 PCIe card + a 0202 DAC/ADC daughter board.
I have tested an older EMU1010 PCI card with the same 0202 DAC/ADC card indivvidual and got sound immidiately. Alsamixer was correctly preconfigured, I did not have to change anything. I have tested the 1010 PCIe + 0202 combo under WIndows to test for any hardware problems, no problem there.
In alsamixer, I have routed DSP 0 - 31 to 0202DAC without having any output from any DSP selected.
The EMU1212PCIe has apparently been reported to work, so this may be some new "firmware revision(?)" that is different from previous.
In the system listing proivided you may see that the the EMU1010 PCI is physically present in the slot.
However, the interconnecting flat cable from the 0202DAC/ADC is presently connected to the EMU1010 PCIe card.
Finally, it is important to mention that Capture works on both cards. It is only 0202 DAC playback that fails for the EMU1212 PCIe.
I have not tested SPDIF output.
Good Luck.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-39.41-lowlatency 3.2.39
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-39-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xfe024000 irq 16'
Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC892'
Components : 'HDA:10ec0892,1458a102,00100302'
Controls : 46
Simple ctrls : 21
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'EMU1010'/'E-mu 1010 [MAEM8810] (rev.3, serial:0x40011102) at 0xbf00, irq 20'
Mixer name : 'SB Audigy'
Components : ''
Controls : 239
Simple ctrls : 80
Card2.Amixer.info:
Card hw:2 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfdefc000 irq 19'
Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:1002791a,00791a00,00100000'
Controls : 4
Simple ctrls : 1
Card2.Amixer.values:
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Card3.Amixer.info:
Card hw:3 'EMU10101'/'E-mu 1010 PCIe [MAEM8986] (rev.0, serial:0x40071102) at 0x9f00, irq 17'
Mixer name : 'SB Audigy'
Components : ''
Controls : 239
Simple ctrls : 80
Date: Mon Apr 8 18:31:22 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=sv:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: alsa-driver
Symptom: audio
Symptom_AlsaPlaybackTest: ALSA playback test through plughw:EMU10101 failed
Symptom_Card: SB0400 Audigy2 Value - E-mu 1010 PCIe [MAEM8986]
Symptom_Type: No sound at all
Title: [Audigy2 - E-mu 1010 PCIe [MAEM8986], playback] No sound at all
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/30/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F5
dmi.board.name: GA-880GMA-UD2H
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF5:bd09/30/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-880GMA-UD2H:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-880GMA-UD2H:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GA-880GMA-UD2H
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
I have tested mainly ALSA output, PulseAudio not so much.