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butler360

Member

Registered: 2012-09-08

Posts: 29

No sound after update, Creative CA0132

I originally had a different motherboard with the usual HD'97 sort of codec onboard and sound worked fine. Then I upgraded my motherboard to a Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 which has a Creative CA0132 sound chip. I did not reinstall after the upgrage, but everything worked fine, including the sound. Then maybe a month or so back I did system updates and the sound stopped working. The sound works fine in Windows always, and on rare occasion I've been able to get the sound working again in Arch, seemingly only for one program. At this time, though, I can't get any sound at all. I've tried the two speaker test as well.

I have gone through the troubleshooting for both ALSA and PulseAudio, but nothing so far.

One oddity is that alsamixer has a "Speaker" section that it always on "00" and cannot be changed. I'm not sure if that's a problem or if that's maybe some internal speaker? The PCM section is on and I can modify the volume. My only problem with the old motherboard was that the sound would be on mute by default and I'd have to move the volume slider to get sound.

I use Gnome with Gnome-Shell so I think I need PulseAudio still. Sorry if I left anything out, I've been trying to get this to work for quite a while now so I may not have remembered everything I did. Any ideas?

$ lsmod | grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 23704 4
snd_hda_codec_ca0132 8493 1
snd_hda_intel 25700 4
snd_hda_codec 97432 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_ca0132
snd_hwdep 6300 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 74926 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc 7217 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy 1463 0
snd_seq_oss 28696 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5692 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50881 5 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy
snd_seq_device 5300 3 snd_seq,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy
snd_timer 18966 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 60021 18 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_ca0132

$ ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Sep 7 17:53 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Sep 7 17:53 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 14 Sep 7 17:53 controlC1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Sep 7 17:53 hwC0D2
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 13 Sep 7 17:53 hwC1D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 12 Sep 7 17:53 hwC1D1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 11 Sep 7 17:53 hwC1D2
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Sep 7 17:53 hwC1D3
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Sep 7 17:55 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Sep 7 18:16 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Sep 7 17:53 pcmC1D3p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Sep 7 17:53 pcmC1D7p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Sep 7 17:53 pcmC1D8p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Sep 7 17:53 pcmC1D9p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 1 Sep 7 17:53 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Sep 7 17:53 time

$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CA0132 Analog [CA0132 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

$ cat /etc/asound.conf
# Use PulseAudio by default
pcm.!default {
type pulse
fallback "sysdefault"
hint {
show on
description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
}
}

ctl.!default {
type pulse
fallback "sysdefault"
}

# vim:set ft=alsaconf:
defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.ctl.card 0

butler360

Member

Registered: 2012-09-08

Posts: 29

Re: No sound after update, Creative CA0132

Well, I never got a reply so I ended up doing a fresh reinstall on the current hardware and now sound works.