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Install did not detect Sound Blaster Audigy sound card

Asked by J. Scott Edwards

I had an old dual Athlon machine with a Sound Blaster Audigy SB0090 card in it. I installed Kubuntu 7.10 on it a few months ago and the sound card worked fine. During the install 7.10 detected the sound card automatically and there was no problems with it at all, it just worked.

The power supply in that machine went bad so we had another, seemingly identical dual Athlon machine, and I installed Kubuntu 8.04 on it. I then discovered that it did not have a sound card (other than the on board one) and took the Audigy card out of the old machine and put it in the new one. I could not get it to work so I decided the easiest thing would be just to install 8.04 again and let it detect the Audigy card during install.

However, it did not detect the card during install and it does not show up if I do an lspci. Here is the strange thing, if I boot the machine from a Knoppix disc, it detects the sound card and the sound works fine.

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J. Scott Edwards (sedwards) said : 		#1

After my posting I rebooted the machine with a Kubuntu 7.10 install disc and did a lspci to verify that the Audigy card was listed, it was (I should note that previously in 8.04 it did not appear).

I then rebooted back into 8.04 and did a lspci and this time the Audigy card did appear in 8.04 and then I noticed there was no red X over the speaker in the panel anymore. And then I tested it and the sound is now working.

I have no idea what changed or why the sound is now working!

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J. Scott Edwards (sedwards) said : 		#2

That is the problem with problems that mysteriously fix themselves, they often mysteriously unfix themselves too. :(

When I booted the machine up this morning, the sound was again broken. An lspci from this morning:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] System Controller (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] AGP Bridge
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ISA (rev 04)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] IDE (rev 04)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ACPI (rev 03)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] PCI (rev 04)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20DCC [Quadro DCC] (rev a3)
02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 0c)
02:08.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
02:08.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
02:08.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)

The lspci from yesterday when it was working:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] System Controller (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] AGP Bridge
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ISA (rev 04)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] IDE (rev 04)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ACPI (rev 03)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] PCI (rev 04)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20DCC [Quadro DCC] (rev a3)
02:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)
02:05.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 03)
02:05.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 0c)
02:08.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
02:08.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
02:08.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)

This morning the Audigy card (02:05.0,1,2) is obviously MIA.

I tried rebooting several times this morning and it hasn't worked. Then I booted it with the Knoppix and the Kubuntu 7.10 discs again and neither of them work this morning.

Any suggestions?

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J. Scott Edwards (sedwards) said : 		#3

Perhaps this is a hardware problem? I moved the card to a different slot in the motherboard and it seems to be working now.

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J. Scott Edwards (sedwards) said : 		#4

The sound card has not failed once since I moved it to a different slot, so to my thinking it is either a hardware problem or that Linux has some problem getting through that bridge.

Since moving the card solved my problem I am closing this.