CMI 8788 soundcard - Asus Xonar D2

[marakaid]

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/User:ClemensLadisch

The support for Xonar DX was added after Alsa 1.0.16, maybe you could not avoid compiling afterall.

[Aradreth]

if what marakaid said doesn't work:
Firstly - are you in the audio group? (not sure if it's the default for ubuntu or not)
Secondly - try

lsmod | grep snd_virtuoso

and post the results; if you get nothing say so.

[Paroxysm]

if what marakaid said doesn't work:
Firstly - are you in the audio group? (not sure if it's the default for ubuntu or not)
Secondly - try

lsmod | grep snd_virtuoso

and post the results; if you get nothing say so.

Not sure what you mean by audio group but there where no results after I did this lsmod | grep snd_virtuoso

[Aradreth]

Not sure what you mean by audio group but there where no results after I did this lsmod | grep snd_virtuoso

Well that explains it.

sudo modprobe snd-virtuoso

then run alsamixer and make sure nothing is muted and try to play a wav file
edit: any audio file you should do really.
edit2: incase you are wondering the command I gave you should have printed something like:
snd_virtuoso 8324 3
snd_oxygen_lib 29184 1 snd_virtuoso
snd 61000 16 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ virtuoso,snd_oxygen_lib,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu4 01_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

if the driver had been loaded and functioning correctly.

[Paroxysm]

nothing printed at all after the command

[Aradreth]

nothing printed at all after the command

If it the modprobe works correctly nothing will print; sorry should have made that clear.
Edit: I really need to read stuff before I hit post/save etc. in my above post the stuff printed after edit2 is what lsmod ... would have printed. >.<

[Paroxysm]

ok still nothing/ no sound but I do see this after the sudo modprobe snd-virtuoso command
snd_virtuoso 10564 0
snd_oxygen_lib 34176 1 snd_virtuoso
snd 70856 16 snd_virtuoso,snd_oxygen_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_hd a_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwde p,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,sn d_timer,snd_seq_device

[Paroxysm]

hmm ok I think that I just might try to reinstall Ubuntu and see if it well get this working but for some reason I don't think that it will

[Aradreth]

EDIT: Oh wow it just occurred to me, do you have onboard audio as well (does it work)?
Edit2: Don't give up quite yet; the driver is loaded now it's just muted/needs a reboot I think (after doing point 1 and 2 on my list)
edit3: you do have onboard audio; could you give that a try? (snd_hda_intel is a common onboard audio driver)

Try

aplay -l

in the shell if nothing is printed then the sound is probably just muted. (might be to do with pulseaudio)
try alsamixer once more just incase if it still doesn't work


1-

sudo nano /etc/modules

and add snd-virtuoso to the bottom of the file.
2 -

grep 'audio' /etc/group
grep 'pulse' /etc/group

if your user name isn't there (audio/pulse repectively) do

sudo gpasswd -a username audio pulse

(if you are just missing one only use the one missing)
3 - see if there is a file called asound.conf in the /etc/ directory if not

nano ~/.asoundrc

and add

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
   type pulse
}

reboot and then check the sound isn't muted and try playing a sound.

[Paroxysm]

EDIT: Oh wow it just occurred to me, do you have onboard audio as well (does it work)?
Edit2: Don't give up quite yet; the driver is loaded now it's just muted/needs a reboot I think (after doing point 1 and 2 on my list)
edit3: you do have onboard audio; could you give that a try? (snd_hda_intel is a common onboard audio driver)

Try

aplay -l

in the shell if nothing is printed then the sound is probably just muted. (might be to do with pulseaudio)
try alsamixer once more just incase if it still doesn't work


1-

sudo nano /etc/modules

and add snd-virtuoso to the bottom of the file.
2 -

grep 'audio' /etc/group
grep 'pulse' /etc/group

if your user name isn't there (audio/pulse repectively) do

sudo gpasswd -a username audio pulse

(if you are just missing one only use the one missing)
3 - see if there is a file called asound.conf in the /etc/ directory if not

nano ~/.asoundrc

and add

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
   type pulse
}

reboot and then check the sound isn't muted and try playing a sound.

ok I do have onboard sound and it does work I just turned it off via bios
and this is the outcome of

 aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

then I added

snd-virtuoso

to the end of the sudo nano /etc/modules
the output of grep 'audio' /etc/group

audio:x:29ulse,dallas
'pulse' /etc/group
audio:x:29ulse,dallas
pulse:x:116:
pulse-access:x:117:
pulse-rt:x:118:

I had to

nano ~/.asoundrc

and add

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
   type pulse
}

the I rebooted but still no sound . now does my name have to be at the end of these also pulse:x:116:
pulse-access:x:117:
pulse-rt:x:118: ?