This was a very frustrating problem for my Creative Audigy card.  I did an 
upgrade to 9.04 from 8.10 AND the problem still existed on Gnome.  I then 
installed KDE, since my machine was pretty robust.  Things started to bog 
down for various reasons, so I decided to do a clean install  of KUBUNTU 
9.04, since I am still in learning/test mode, i.e. nothing to lose really. 
So far, the sound issue went away.  There is definitely some problem related 
to the 8 series kernal update and the carry-over to a 9.04 upgrade.

GEA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leann Ogasawara" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 7:31 AM
Subject: [Bug 94333] Re: [regression] sound card not working after 
cleaninstall of Dapper, Edgy and Feisty


Just curious if anyone who had this issue was able to test the latest
Jaunty 9.04 release yet and confirm if this issue remains? Please let us
know. Thanks.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

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[regression] sound card not working after clean install of Dapper, Edgy and 
Feisty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94333
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Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
Status in “linux-source-2.6.20” source package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix

Bug description:
Although it is visible, Ubuntu cannot fully configure my sound card.

I have a Soundblaster Live card CT4760, and have also tried an SB Live 
Platinum SB0060 card (both use emu10k1 driver) and an older Soundblaster 
(using the ens1371 driver). Same behaviour. The machine is running an Intel 
D850GB motherboard (without the onboard sound option), with the last 
available firmware. The most interesting thing is that the Live Platinum 
card had the attached LiveDrive bay, and the headphone out put on it worked. 
None of the connections and channels on the PCI card itself worked, yet the 
LiveDrive extension was configured as the primary audio device. No "Volume" 
or "Master Volume" track was available in the mixer, the primary was just 
"Headphone Out".

I have tried a clean installation of Dapper, Edgy and Feisty. All exhibit 
the same problem. However, I used the same hardware years ago with either 
Warty or Hoary and had no issues. The sound worked out of the box.

Anyways, without further ado, here are the symptoms.

1. The device is listed by lspci

$ sudo lspci -nnvv
(...)
02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 
[1102:0002] (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs CT4760 SBLive! [1102:8040]
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
        Region 0: I/O ports at df00 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

02:0c.1 Input device controller [0980]: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port 
[1102:7002] (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick [1102:0020]
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32
        Region 0: I/O ports at dff0 [size=8]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
(...)


2. The modules are loaded:

$ lsmod |grep snd
snd_emu10k1_synth       8448  0
snd_emux_synth         37120  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi         8960  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul       7936  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1           138784  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_ac97_codec        100388  1 snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus                3456  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            45184  0
snd_mixer_oss          18304  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                81284  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc         11272  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            6016  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep              10884  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_oss            35712  0
snd_seq_midi            9728  0
snd_rawmidi            26240  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      8576  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                54768  8 
snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              24708  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          9612  7 
snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    57220  13 
snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               9440  1 snd


3. dmesg shows some clues

$ dmesg
(...)
[   47.522250] ALSA 
/home/maciek/alsa-src/alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2051: 
AC'97 0 does not respond - RESET
[   47.522265] ALSA 
/home/maciek/alsa-src/alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2060: 
AC'97 0 access is not valid [0x0], removing mixer.
[   47.523549] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:0c.0 disabled
[   47.523565] EMU10K1_Audigy: probe of 0000:02:0c.0 failed with error -5
(...)

4. /dev/dsp does NOT exist

5. Nowhere else is the card visible:

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---

$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:222: no soundcards found...

$ alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

$ sudo invoke-rc.d alsa-utils restart
 * Shutting down ALSA... 
* warning: 'alsactl store' failed with error message 'alsactl: 
save_state:1253: No soundcards found...'... 
[fail]
 * Setting up ALSA... 
[ OK ]
invoke-rc.d: initscript alsa-utils, action "restart" failed.



I am happy to provide any more information. I have literally spent weeks 
going in circles unable to figure this one out.