sound sometimes does not work

[rvdesign]

I am a newbee in Linux mint land and these technical phrases don't mean didley to me. Everything is working fine, except my soundcard. Sometimes there is no sound at all, and sometimes there is. As a heavy user of windows I think this is a conflict between an on board soundcard and a newly installed one. On board AK77 Pro (or plus (don't know excactly)) and new is: Sweex 5.1 pci soundcard. Does anybody know....?

[bobescalin2005]

Hi rvdesign! First of all please post back your result of this as root:

#lspci

Cheers!

[rvdesign]

P.S. my name is Ruud and here are the results of the...

Hostbr. VIA TECHN.INC. VT8366/a/7
PCI bridge is the same
USB contr. NEC corp. USB (rev43)
USB the same again
USB contr. NEC Corp. USB 2.0(rev 04)
Multimed. audiocontr. C-media Electr.Inc. CM 8738 (rev 10)
Ethern.contr.: Realtek Semiconduct (rev 10)
ISA bridge: Via Tech. inc. VT8233a
IDE interf. Via Tech.inc. VT82C586A and a lot more nmbr. Busmaster IDE (rev 06)
USB contr. Via tech.inc. VT82xxx USB 1.1 (rev. 23
And the same once more
Multimedia audiocontroller: Via Techn.inc. VT8233/a......(rev 40)
VGA Comp.contr. NVidia corp NV 17 Geforce 4MX440

This completes the votes etc.
And thank you, for helping me,
greatings,
Ruud

[bobescalin2005]

Well Ruud...i don`t think you need two soundcards, right? btw what graphical interface are you using? (kde or gnome)
If you are using gnome look in the:

gnome-volume-control

and see what device is using default!
I guess this is the onboard soundcard:

Multimedia audiocontroller: Via Techn.inc. VT8233/a......(rev 40)

and this:

Multimed. audiocontr. C-media Electr.Inc. CM 8738 (rev 10)

is the other soundcard on PCI
My ideea is to turn off the onboard soundcard from bios and see if it`s work!
Cheers!

[rvdesign]

O.K. i`ll give it a try and let you know if sound will work all the time instead of sometimes

[sanjeeva20]

hi any one ,i am using backtrack 3 my audio device is Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Aud
io Controller (rev 02).
my problem nooooo soooound.
help

[rvdesign]

Bobescalin,

I did switche off my onboard audio in the bios and as it seems everything works allright. I assumed by misstake that lunix works more or less like windows (and because windows did not care about these two audiodevices....), but i think this is wrong. Once more thank you for your suggestions, great help.

Greetings,
Ruud

[bobescalin2005]

I am glad you maded! Anyway CM 8738 is more stable than the other soundcard in linux!
Cheers!

[bobescalin2005]

hi any one ,i am using backtrack 3 my audio device is Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Aud
io Controller (rev 02).
my problem nooooo soooound.
help

btw...start a new thread and then we will see what we can do!
Cheers!

[rvdesign]

bobescalin2005, Everyting is still o.k. I'm discovering Linux mint further and sound works all the time.
Thanks a lot.