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Re: Cannot find multimedia device

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J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> writes:

> On Monday, March 19th, 2012, at 16:30:06h -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
>
>> I'm going backwards. I replaced the pseudo-X-Fi card with a Audigy 1,
>> and now get no sound out.
>
> No sound out of the loudspeakers?

That is, no sound from soundcard to speakers, but a bit of voltage at
the speaker plug does make a sound. The card may not be seated properly;
the card may be shot; the plug or jack surfaces corroded, etc.

>> The card is set as default device. The module loads fine. Alsa mixer
>> is set where it should be. Aplay of a test file runs OK. Signals at
>> the miniplug sound in speakers.
>
> But that sounds like everything is working?

Yes, which is why I suspected one of the above problems. 

> What I suspect is that the PulseAudio, which runs on top of ALSA
> is now in the muted position.

PulseAudio is not automatically installed in debian stable yet. I could
install it but Audacity and to a lesser degree MPlayer are foundational
apps for the person that will use the box, and they are not cleanly
compatible with PulseAudio.

> It is a nuisance having to do all this but you do get the
> alleged benefit in the end of having the PulseAudio single
> input/output level control and all sounds from the different
> sources get mixed in to that and different competing
> applications do not hang waiting to get use of the audio
> hardware.

I see the virtue of PulseAudio, but because of the Audacity problem it
may be premature to head in that direction.

>> Incidentally, people often mention that the onboard sound chips are
>> greatly improved. I wonder, if you think it produces sound quality
>> comparable to these older cards.
>
> The Audigy and XFi cards are extremely good quality sound cards
> and will do much more than the on board sound chip.  However,
> the onboard sound chips are now of good quality so may be
> "good enough" for what is required if not too demanding.

Thanks for the advice. The person for whom I am preparing the box is a
musician, and while nothing fancy is required, it should be decent. The
Creative X-Fi card is a software simulation of X-Fi that does not work
in Debian. What I'm going to do is back up and reinstall debian with the
X-Fi card, and I suspect things will go better.

Haines

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Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-15 12:31 -0400
  Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-15 16:52 +0000
    Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-16 14:33 -0400
      Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-16 20:26 +0000
        Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-17 06:54 -0400
          Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-17 12:48 +0000
            Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-17 12:57 +0000
            Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-17 14:01 -0400
              Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-17 20:11 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-18 15:38 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-18 20:50 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-19 16:30 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-19 22:21 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-20 10:34 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-20 15:05 +0000
              Re: Cannot find multimedia device Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> - 2012-03-17 21:15 +0100
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-17 20:58 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-30 08:31 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-30 13:35 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-30 18:35 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-31 09:18 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-31 08:32 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-03-31 16:46 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-03-31 18:08 -0400
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-04-01 10:30 +0000
                Re: Cannot find multimedia device J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-04-01 13:06 +0000

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