Re: soundcard

On 11/21/2010 05:28 AM, john wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Replies in-line
>
> On Saturday 20 November 2010, Jim Beard wrote:
>> On 11/20/2010 03:10 PM, john wrote:
>>> Anyone know of a currently available inexpensive soundcard (say 20-30
>>> Gbp) which works out of the box with 2010.1.
>>> (no hair left after trying the onboard MCP61 or a Soundblaster 5.1vx )
>>
>> I am not familiar with those specific cards,
> MCP is on-board sound ( ALC888bcodec) - Extensive Googling carried out and not
> found anyone who has a solution.
> Soundblaster 5.1vx - PCI card by Creative Labs. Again extensive Googling and
> found that this card will work intermittently but - strangely only after
> booting to windows and then doing a restart to Linux. With this card from a
> cold boot the card just screeches, it appears (from Googling) that windows
> sets the card (in some way that I have not found an explanation for) and
> allows it to work intermittently i.e screech-sound-screech etc. but it will
> not survive a cold boot
>> nor do I know what
>> you did while not tearing hair out, but I find it difficult to
>> believe that 2010.1 would not work with most any ordinary card.
> there are many cards listed here that don't work
>   http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main
>> What is your hardware other than the card?
> Gigabyte MB with ‎AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor
> on-board RTL8211CL LAN (working)
> NVidia GeForce GT430 graphics (working)
>>
>> Have you tried running pavucontrol
> No, was unaware of this app, now installed and will try it but see below re:
> pulseaudio
>
>> and tinkering with settings
>> there?  If something is set to 0 for output, that can complicate
>> things.
>>
>> Have you gone through the trouble-shooting routines found in MCC
>> when setting up the sound system?
> Yes - to no avail
>>
>> Have you tried disabling pulse audio?
> Pulseaudio disabled as Logitech USB headset with only work with Skype with it
> disabled (must have this at the moment as I need to speak to wife who is
> overseas)
>
>>
>> Do you have the gstreamer stuff installed?  (draksound should
>> download and install stuff needed, but it might have hit a glitch
>> on something.)
> yes
>>
>> Have you gone to Google Groups and used advanced search to search
>> alt.os.linux.mandriva for error messages encountered or sound
>> problems in general?
> yes and that is why I have no hair :-) - tried everything I could find
>>
>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> jim b.
>
> Thanks for your interest
>
> John

Well, you covered all I know to do and then some.  Best of luck 
looking for an inexpensive card on your side of the pond.

Cheers!

jim b.

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