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David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 27 Oct 2009 10:47 am

di I use terminal to do this??? Ive lost sound again

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 27 Oct 2009 5:35 pm

yeah use the terminal. you need to set your default soundcard back to sound blaster. did that happen after a reboot?

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 28 Oct 2009 7:56 am

well got sound back on you tube, no CD now

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 28 Oct 2009 8:11 am

I used the commands you sent me and worked, how can we just put in cd or DVD and it play it

can't find where to set to sound blaster either

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 28 Oct 2009 8:05 pm

What I had to do was open my bios settings and disable the built in sound card. As you see ubuntu chooses the built in over the added as the default. There is a configuration file that needs to be changed by hand so that you dont have to mess with bios. I cant remember where it is right off, Ill dig in my computer tomorrow and find it so you can just copy mine since we have the same card.

as far as the commands I sent you for cd and dvd playback, what you do is save the series of commands to a file, then move the file to your /bin directory. Ill post more tomorrow as I dont have much time at the moment.

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 29 Oct 2009 4:59 am

hit windows key + V, then in devices select your card CA0106 or something to that effect.

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 29 Oct 2009 5:59 am

my card doesn't show up

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 29 Oct 2009 9:05 pm

post the output of:

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asoundconf -list

posting this so I can find it later

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic ... with-hdmi/

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... tu-499520/

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38841

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 12 Nov 2009 6:51 am

Steve
sorry for the delay

david@david-desktop:~$ asoundconf -list
Usage:
asoundconf is-active
asoundconf get|delete PARAMETER
asoundconf set PARAMETER VALUE
asoundconf list

Convenience macro functions:
asoundconf set-default-card PARAMETER
asoundconf reset-default-card
asoundconf set-pulseaudio
asoundconf unset-pulseaudio
asoundconf set-oss PARAMETER
asoundconf unset-oss

david@david-desktop:~$

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 12 Nov 2009 1:45 pm

crap I gave you a bad command, sorry

do that without the minus sign

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asoundconf list

your output should be the same as mine, but with your intel card that you dont want listing as well.
mine is:

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inoculos@inoculos-desktop:~yes master?$ asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:
CA0106

you should also get CA0106 in the list.

If that is the case, then do this

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sudo asoundconf set-default-card CA0106

then reboot
That should do it.

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 12 Nov 2009 2:01 pm

OK, did all that, and got sound

but

just left side, and the master vol control doesn't work, as the mixer either

I have dell surround sound..if thats any help

2 left, 2 right the center, and sub...Next??????

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 12 Nov 2009 4:21 pm

how do you hook that to your sound card? is it your speakers into a hub, then one 1/8 jack into the card?

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 12 Nov 2009 4:48 pm

colored cords from the sub to the card, sound blaster live... Dell speakers

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 13 Nov 2009 10:07 am

I got a few shows out of town this weekend, Im not exactly sure about surround sound fixes, but I will look into it on sunday. In the mean time try this first

I had the same problem with 5.1 sound.

there are options in the volume controll preferences. I think there are "switches" and "options" or so you have to enable.
I simply checked every checkbox I could see.
And now I can controll the different channels individually which was not(!) possible under windows.

from
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic ... questions/

If that doesnt work try:

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alsamixer -c 0

and toy with the levels while a song is playing

Use the arrow keys to navigate the mixer (left right to select a channel, up down for volume levels), tab to switch pages within the mixer, and the m key to mute unmute.

Hopefully this will do it. If not we will have to add modules or alter a configuration file.[/quote]

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 13 Nov 2009 1:12 pm

they control nothing, did what the guy did on your link , only one slider controlled vol....now it wont ...

get back when ya can....

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 14 Nov 2009 10:35 am

The big difference between Ubuntu and crunchbang is that crunchbang ignores a lot of the new school easy to use configuration tools in favor of the old less resource using configuration tool. So we have been doing this the old school way. A little more painful but in the end you should have a more powerful system.

We need to create a configuration tool for your sound driver. We will create a file called .asoundrc, and tell it to divide the sound 5 ways.

In a terminal do this

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sudo gedit ~/.asoundrc

cut and paste all this into the text editor

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pcm.card0 {

  type hw

  card 0

  mmap_emulation true

}

pcm.!output {
type dmix
ipc_key 1234
ipc_key_add_uid 1
slave {
pcm "card0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 8192
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}

#
# DSNOOP output device
#
pcm.!input {
type dsnoop
ipc_key 4321
ipc_key_add_uid 1
slave {
pcm "card0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
rate 44100
}
}

#
# ASYM duplex device
#
pcm.!duplex {
type asym
playback.pcm "output"
capture.pcm "input"
}

#
# Make the duplex device default
#
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "duplex"
}

#
# OSS Compability

pcm.!dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "duplex"
}

ctl.!mixer0 {
type hw
card 0
}

# line added to default to attempt surround sound fix

pcm.shared_surround {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "surround51"
    slave.channels 6
    route_policy duplicate
}

save that file (hit control s), close it and reboot.

If you get no sound or something weird we will just delete it and try something else.

These config files are the way linux users customize their systems, and that is where the learning curve really pays off. There is not much you cant do once you get the hang of these. Unfortunately it takes a lot of poking around to get it right.

need to find these later:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=595412
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bondhugu/alsamch.shtml
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=586411
http://www.phaeronix.net/asoundrc
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-45 ... ml#4528619

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 16 Nov 2009 8:51 am

well did it, still sound in one side, none of the controls in any mixers work...

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 16 Nov 2009 9:59 am

Kinda figured that would happen, but was worth a shot. Lets simplify it and see what happens.

re-open .asoundrc

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sudo gedit ~/.asoundrc

delete everything in there,

paste this in

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pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "surround51"
    slave.channels 6
    route_policy duplicate
}

save and close it

reboot and see what happens

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 16 Nov 2009 10:14 am

it's works!!!

Now, when i put a cd in, say with pictures on it, it won't come up, how do we get it to???

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 16 Nov 2009 11:51 am

awesome

congratulations!
http://www.ihighfive.com/

youll want to either use your file browser (WINDOWS + F) and chose your cd drive, or open the photo viewer. right click your desktop and it will be in graphics. gpicview I think

Personally I like a program called gthumb

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gthumb

run it by typing

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gthumb

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 16 Nov 2009 12:01 pm

also just so you know what happened here,
after figuring out that the wrong sound card was used as default we did the following:

1. found all sound cards
2. set the proper one as default
3. made a configuration file

this is the basic procedure for any hardware problem. on top of all that we used to have to hunt for drivers as well, but that problem is rapidly going away.

dont forget to periodically run your updates!

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 18 Nov 2009 7:09 am

no sound again

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 18 Nov 2009 2:00 pm

wow,

I know linux hates that ca0106 chip but I havn't seen this repetitive of a problem before.

1. Did you lose sound after a reboot?
2. did you disable the other sound card in bios?

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 18 Nov 2009 2:38 pm

it was working just fine... I don't know what happen, I forgot what we did to get it all working.

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 18 Nov 2009 6:43 pm

1.restart alsa

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 sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart

check sound

2. restart the desktop like this:

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alt>printscreen>k

hold all 3 down at once.
log back in and see if there is sound

3. If sound didnt return,
this is the command to set the sound card

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sudo asoundconf set-default-card CA0106

Try the 3 in that order 1, by 1 and see if any work. Usually the first one is enough[/code]