A.K.A. audio card, the sound card is an expansion card that provides extra audio capabilities to a computer. Once a separate component needed by older computers, newer machines tend to have these sound capabilities built into the motherboard, making them unnecessary.
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SB X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB on Lubuntu
I'm having trouble after installing Lubuntu-desktop on top of a Ubuntu Server (64 bit).
I won't lie about the reason for this abomination of distributions is to achieve 64 bit Lubuntu. I used to run ...
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Get Creative soundcard working correctly
I am trying to get sound going on my fresh install of 10.10.
I have a creative fatlity branded sound card. My ALSA information.
Most things seems to be working out of the box, once I turned off my ...
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Where can I find a list of compatible audio cards?
I have a creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio, And i faced so many problems with this card regarding compatibility with Linux.
Now i am looking for a new audio card and want to make sure that this time it ...
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Sound system is eating away the battery
In my laptop the sound code is running at 100% even when I am not playing anything. It is causing my palm rest to hit significantly. While I do not face the issue on windows machine where I am using ...
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Sound does not work once my profile loads
When I boot up my ubuntu 9.10 distro, the sound works just fine, but hen I sign into one of my profiles, the screen flickers for a second, and then the sound card no longer works. It appears that my ...
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HP Envy 15 3040nr sound issues
I have successfully set up my Envy 15" for Ubuntu 12.04 except for the sound, anyone have any ideas about how to get it working?
I had to blacklist snd-usb-audio to my alsa to stop pulseaudio from ...
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Sound freezes (beeping) - sound blaster x-fi HD
I have the problem that after listening to the music (about 15 minutes),
the only sound coming out is a beep sound. If i plug off the usb, and insert it again, everything is okay. Have anyone ...
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Disable sound output device in 12.04?
I need to be able to disable a sound device in 12.04.
I was able to do this in 11.10 using the Sounds Setting app, and it worked like a charm. The new Sound Settings app doesn't seem to have the ...
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ALSA fails to recognize on-board audio card
In Mythbuntu 12.04.2, ALSA (1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu1.1) fails to recognize the A88GMV on-board AMD 880 HD Audio (card).
This system is fully updated.
The system also contains a NVIDIA graphics card ...
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SB X-Fi Alsa 2.0 to 2.1
I think it's fixed now.. Someone confirm this? I still have problems to make it work with pulseaudio (stereo ok, LFE mute)
should understand how to merge alsa and pulseaudio for this purpose
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Ubuntu 12.04, Can hear the sound but Sound option in settings shows no sound card
I have weired issue. I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04. Then I installed Nvidia drives for my graphics card. I executed the command "modprobe nvidia" after installing the Nvidia drivers and ...
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How can I enable my Asus Xonar DGX (CMI8788 chipset) sound card?
I have been strugling with trying to get my sound card working under Linux, from the command line it reports back as follows:
user@desktop:~$ sudo lspci -v | grep -A7 -i "audio"
84:04.0 Multimedia ...
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Has anyone got “Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro” - (usb Interface) installed?
Has anyone tried this external usb sound blaster on ubuntu.
http://us.store.creative.com/Sound-Blaster-XFi-Surround-5.1-Pro/M/B0044DEDCA.htm.
I have bought M-Audio Bx5a deluxe Studio Monitors for my ...
