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hugsie

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Registered: 2018-01-26

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[SOLVED] Soundblaster Z - no sound

EDIT: The solution was a muted channel within alsamixer ....

As the topic already says, i cannot get the Soundblaster Z Card to output any audio.
The card is detected and i can assign the default sink to this card as well with pasystray. pavucontrol shows the card under the output devices it is not muted.
I am fairly new to configuring pci soundcards under linux as i have used usb audio devices that worked for me so far. So maybe i missed something important.

sudo dmesg| grep ca0132

[   17.692797] snd_hda_codec_ca0132 hdaudioC0D1: autoconfig for Sound Blaster Z: line_outs=3 (0xb/0x11/0x10/0x0/0x0) type:line
[   17.692804] snd_hda_codec_ca0132 hdaudioC0D1:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   17.692807] snd_hda_codec_ca0132 hdaudioC0D1:    hp_outs=1 (0xf/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[   17.692810] snd_hda_codec_ca0132 hdaudioC0D1:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[   17.692812] snd_hda_codec_ca0132 hdaudioC0D1:    dig-out=0xc/0xd
[   17.692813] snd_hda_codec_ca0132 hdaudioC0D1:    inputs:
[   17.692815] snd_hda_codec_ca0132 hdaudioC0D1:      Mic=0x12
[   17.692817] snd_hda_codec_ca0132 hdaudioC0D1:      Line=0x13
[   17.692819] snd_hda_codec_ca0132 hdaudioC0D1:    dig-in=0xe
[   18.310237] snd_hda_codec_ca0132 hdaudioC0D1: ca0132 DSP downloaded and running

Last edited by hugsie (2022-08-07 15:29:51)