No sound with sound blaster live card

[Alexandre-Xavier Labonté-Lamoureux]

I am running the latest version of Lubuntu on the Live CD. It is 15.04 but I have the same problem with older versions. This bug doesn't occur with Linux Mint 17.1, but I can't use it because it is too slow, so I use Lubuntu.

Right now I use my ATI video card and I want to output audio throught my sound blaster live. On Lunbutu, the OS only detects the HDMI output from my video card as a sound output. I only use the Live CD, I don't have a hard drive.

So if I run <<lspci -knn>> on Mint, it says this:

00:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Host Bridge [10de:02f0] (rev a2)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
00:00.1 RAM memory [0500]: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 [10de:02fa] (rev a2)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
00:00.2 RAM memory [0500]: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 [10de:02fe] (rev a2)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
00:00.3 RAM memory [0500]: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 [10de:02f8] (rev a2)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
00:00.4 RAM memory [0500]: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 [10de:02f9] (rev a2)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
00:00.5 RAM memory [0500]: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Host Bridge [10de:02ff] (rev a2)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
00:00.6 RAM memory [0500]: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 [10de:027f] (rev a2)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
00:00.7 RAM memory [0500]: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 [10de:027e] (rev a2)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
00:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: NVIDIA Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge [10de:02fc] (rev a1)
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: NVIDIA Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge [10de:02fb] (rev a1)
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:09.0 RAM memory [0500]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge [10de:0270] (rev a2)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
00:0a.0 ISA bridge [0601]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge [10de:0260] (rev a3)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
00:0a.1 SMBus [0c05]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 SMBus [10de:0264] (rev a3)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
 Kernel driver in use: nForce2_smbus
00:0a.2 RAM memory [0500]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 [10de:0272] (rev a3)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
00:0b.0 USB controller [0c03]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 USB Controller [10de:026d] (rev a3)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
 Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
00:0b.1 USB controller [0c03]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 USB Controller [10de:026e] (rev a3)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
 Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:0d.0 IDE interface [0101]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 IDE [10de:0265] (rev a1)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
 Kernel driver in use: pata_amd
00:0e.0 IDE interface [0101]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller [10de:0266] (rev a1)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
 Kernel driver in use: sata_nv
00:0f.0 IDE interface [0101]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller [10de:0267] (rev a1)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
 Kernel driver in use: sata_nv
00:10.0 PCI bridge [0604]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge [10de:026f] (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge [0680]: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller [10de:0269] (rev a3)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
 Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
 Kernel driver in use: k8temp
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM] [1002:6779]
 Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Device [1787:2311]
 Kernel driver in use: radeon
02:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Caicos HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6400 Series] [1002:aa98]
 Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Device [1787:aa98]
 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
03:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: LSI Corporation FW322/323 [TrueFire] 1394a Controller [11c1:5811] (rev 70)
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion a1677c [103c:2a34]
 Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
03:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 [1102:0002] (rev 08)
 Subsystem: Creative Labs CT4832 SBLive! Value [1102:8027]
 Kernel driver in use: snd_emu10k1
03:0a.1 Input device controller [0980]: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port [1102:7002] (rev 08)
 Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick [1102:0020]
 Kernel driver in use: Emu10k1_gameport

...And if I run this command (again on Mint) <<lsmod | grep snd>>, it says this:

snd_emu10k1_synth 17293 0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 46368 1
snd_emux_synth 42767 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 17744 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 13420 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1 161266 3 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_hda_intel 56451 2
snd_hda_codec 192906 2 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_util_mem 14117 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 13602 3 snd_hda_codec,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 130285 1 snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus 12730 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 102099 5 snd_ac97_codec,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_emu10k1
snd_page_alloc 18710 3 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel,snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 30144 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 61560 5 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device 14497 5 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi
snd_timer 29482 3 snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1
snd 69322 24 snd_ac97_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_device,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_midi
soundcore 12680 1 snd

Can you help me? I will post new information you will ask for if you need it.
Thanks you!
--Alex

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Thanks for your report. Could you try to install pulseaudio and pavucontrol and see if it's working for you ?

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