voteslave

Hi

AM running Ubuntu (Dapper) and recently installed an X-Fi sound card only to find there were no drivers.

I have left the soundcard in but 'enabled' the onboard sound on my Asus A8N-E mobo and enstalled the latest Nvidia audio drivers.

The problem is that i have no sound and there is no sound card at all that is selectable in the system sound gui

I am pretty sure the drivers are loaded ok but does it matter if they were loaded as root or not?

LSMOD shows :
================================================== =======
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 12296 1
rfcomm 40216 0
l2cap 26244 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 49892 4 rfcomm,l2cap
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
cpufreq_stats 5636 0
cpufreq_userspace 4696 0
cpufreq_ondemand 6428 0
cpufreq_conservative 7332 0
freq_table 4740 1 cpufreq_stats
tc1100_wmi 6916 0
video 16260 0
acpi_sbs 19980 0
battery 9988 1 acpi_sbs
i2c_acpi_ec 5120 1 acpi_sbs
container 4608 0
button 6672 0
pcc_acpi 12416 0
sony_acpi 5516 0
ac 5252 1 acpi_sbs
dev_acpi 11140 0
hotkey 11556 0
nls_cp437 5888 1
vfat 13440 1
fat 53020 1 vfat
nls_utf8 2176 4
ntfs 103536 2
ext2 68360 1
md_mod 72532 0
dm_mod 58936 1
lp 11844 0
ipv6 265600 6
nvidia 4545076 12
agpgart 34888 1 nvidia
parport_pc 35780 1
parport 36296 2 lp,parport_pc
analog 12320 0
gameport 15496 1 analog
bt878 10552 0
tuner 42276 0
tvaudio 23836 0
rtc 13492 0
usblp 13056 0
floppy 62148 0
pcspkr 2180 0
shpchp 45632 0
bttv 164304 1 bt878
video_buf 22148 1 bttv
i2c_algo_bit 9608 1 bttv
v4l2_common 6016 1 bttv
btcx_risc 5128 1 bttv
nvsound 1542072 1
pci_hotplug 29236 1 shpchp
af_packet 22920 2
tveeprom 15248 1 bttv
psmouse 36228 0
serio_raw 7300 0
videodev 9856 1 bttv
soundcore 10208 2 nvsound
i2c_nforce2 6912 0
i2c_core 21904 8 i2c_acpi_ec,nvidia,tuner,tvaudio,bttv,i2c_algo_bit ,tveeprom,i2c_nforce2
tsdev 8000 0
evdev 9856 1
sg 37920 0
usbhid 38368 0
reiserfs 268016 1
ide_generic 1536 0
forcedeth 23556 0
ehci_hcd 32008 0
ohci_hcd 21892 0
usbcore 129668 5 usblp,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
ide_cd 33028 0
cdrom 38560 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 17664 2
sd_mod 19984 7
sata_nv 9476 10
libata 75660 1 sata_nv
scsi_mod 139240 3 sg,sd_mod,libata
generic 5124 0
amd74xx 15132 0 [permanent]
thermal 13576 0
processor 23360 1 thermal
fan 4868 0
capability 5000 0
commoncap 7296 1 capability
vga16fb 13448 1
vgastate 10368 1 vga16fb
fbcon 42784 72
tileblit 2816 1 fbcon
font 8320 1 fbcon
bitblit 6272 1 fbcon
softcursor 2304 1 bitblit
================================================== =======

Any ideas how i can get my sound to work? Let me know if you need more info.

many thanks

voteslave