Comment 28 for bug 179095

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a bowen (a-bowen) wrote : Re: No sound with Audigy card in Hardy Heron - works OK in Gutsy. Card recognised by "sound Preferences"

I'm new to linux so probably shouldn't be here but... I installed Ubuntu 8.04 last week on a new second hard drive in a (now mixed OS) Dell Windows XP 2002 - and there's no sound. The sound card is a Creative SB Audigy 2. It seems to be quite a common problem and so I've tried various of the suggested ways of resolving the problem and none seem to help me out...
- Opening the volume control and toggling the Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack
- System – Audio – Devices – Changing all the drivers to “ALSA Advanced”
- Using the Terminal command aplay -l
Ubuntu sees the card on card 1
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Audigy2 [Audigy 2 ZS [SB0353]], device 0: emu10k1 [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
  Subdevices: 32/32
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
  Subdevice #8: subdevice #8
  Subdevice #9: subdevice #9
  Subdevice #10: subdevice #10
  Subdevice #11: subdevice #11
  Subdevice #12: subdevice #12
  Subdevice #13: subdevice #13
  Subdevice #14: subdevice #14
  Subdevice #15: subdevice #15
  Subdevice #16: subdevice #16
  Subdevice #17: subdevice #17
  Subdevice #18: subdevice #18
  Subdevice #19: subdevice #19
  Subdevice #20: subdevice #20
  Subdevice #21: subdevice #21
  Subdevice #22: subdevice #22
  Subdevice #23: subdevice #23
  Subdevice #24: subdevice #24
  Subdevice #25: subdevice #25
  Subdevice #26: subdevice #26
  Subdevice #27: subdevice #27
  Subdevice #28: subdevice #28
  Subdevice #29: subdevice #29
  Subdevice #30: subdevice #30
  Subdevice #31: subdevice #31
card 1: Audigy2 [Audigy 2 ZS [SB0353]], device 2: emu10k1 efx [Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: Audigy2 [Audigy 2 ZS [SB0353]], device 3: emu10k1 [Multichannel Playback]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Audigy2 [Audigy 2 ZS [SB0353]], device 4: p16v [p16v]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Using the Terminal Command: alsamixer
and adjusting the 25 levels does not seem to make any difference
Going to ALSA's webpage and looking for the driver it indicates the “emu10k1” as shown in Terminal – vedi: card 1: Audigy2 [Audigy 2 ZS [SB0353]], device 3: emu10k1

On the original Dell installed CD from Sound Blaster it has the Build as: SBA2-DLS1D-W3-LB. Is this “emu10k1” the right driver for this?

Please could someone help as I'm lost and in over my head.

Thanks