Ubuntu 8.10 Audigy 4 PCI Soundcard no sound

[Peter Turner]

Hi,

I had Ubuntu 8.04 installed on my Core 2 Duo PC with 2GB ram and Nvidia 9600GT graphics card and everything worked fine. However, I decided to upgrade to the latest version Ubuntu 8.10. Now, my Soundblaster Audigy 4 PCI soundcard will not produce any sound at all; although it works fine in Windows XP and Windows Vista. I have spent hours searching online forums, installing new drivers and using the google search engine; and have tried many suggestions without any success. The card appears to be detected and shows up in alsamixer; however changing the various controls in alsamixer makes no difference. Using the Ubuntu Audio setting GUI to change settings does not help either. Please Help.

Thanks
Peter

[Marcel (marcel-vd-berg)]

I have the same issue with an Audigy 2 PCI card.
The card is not detected at all, seems not to exist in hardinfo!
I will remove the card and use the on-board sound chip instead.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems
this should not be under alsa-mixer, but under linux

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it without more information.

Please include the information requested from the "Reporting Sound Bugs" section of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems as separate attachments.

[raubjan (raubjan)]

having same issue with teraatec dmx 6fire tried several hings, nothing works. the volume meter shows that there is a stream, but i can't here anything in any application if i switch on "add virtual output device for simultaneous on all local sound cards". if this is switched off at least vlc is working

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=7b974105a2e545c378aba1ce7a722d8ffa938a36

[Peter Turner (peterraymondturner)]

Hi, here is an update as of 12 November 2008

I followed the instructions given at the following link today http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=978372
Now sound works in the Chromium game on my Audigy 4 PCI sound card, although it sounds a bit odd. However, I have not been able to get the sound to work in The Kaffeine application on Freeview Digital TV yet. I will have to try some other applications/games in the next few days to see what happens in them.

[raubjan (raubjan)]

http://bongolinux.com/terratec-dmx-6fire-2496-su-ubuntu-810-con-pulseaudio/05/

this instructions worked for me and my terratec dmx 6fire

instructions are in italian...

hope you find similiar instructions for your soundcard.

at all it's a kind of horror doing this manualy.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi Peter,

Can you confirm this is still an issue with the latest pre-release of Jaunty - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty/alpha-2/ . Please let us know your results. Thanks.

[phr0ze (pcgenius)]

Please see if this helps. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1053058

[Peter Turner (peterraymondturner)]

Hi There,

Audio is now working perfectly in Ubuntu 8.10 after following the threads you suggested. The audio output of some applications has to be set in the Pulseaudio device chooser the first time the application is run; but then works perfectly.

Thanks
Peter

> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:08:00 +0000
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> Subject: [Bug 293031] Re: Ubuntu 8.10 Audigy 4 PCI Soundcard no sound
>
> Please see if this helps.
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1053058
>
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> Ubuntu 8.10 Audigy 4 PCI Soundcard no sound
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293031
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> Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Hi,
>
> I had Ubuntu 8.04 installed on my Core 2 Duo PC with 2GB ram and Nvidia 9600GT graphics card and everything worked fine. However, I decided to upgrade to the latest version Ubuntu 8.10. Now, my Soundblaster Audigy 4 PCI soundcard will not produce any sound at all; although it works fine in Windows XP and Windows Vista. I have spent hours searching online forums, installing new drivers and using the google search engine; and have tried many suggestions without any success. The card appears to be detected and shows up in alsamixer; however changing the various controls in alsamixer makes no difference. Using the Ubuntu Audio setting GUI to change settings does not help either. Please Help.
>
> Thanks
> Peter

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[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

peter, can you please tell us what fixed the issue for you? thanx

[Manoj Iyer (manjo)]

From the last comment the problem is reported to be fixed, I am closing this bug as FixReleased