Mick I have similar setup, the same problem and the same solution . . .01micko wrote:i have made possibly a significant discovery with alsa.
As we know, alsa is far from perfect. Recently, my onboard sound died and I have been using a usb cheapy. When I plugged my radoen graphics card in the usb card became card 2 (onboard 0, radeon hdmi 1).
I disbaled the onboard in bios and it became 1. No probs, set it up with MultipleSoundCardWizard. Too easy.
Ok, so I took out the radeon and am now using the onboard nvidia graphics, I normally run a card, it's faster, frees up machine RAM, plus more VRAM. However, with no other sound cards the stupid usb thing still shows up as card 1! Of course alsa spat the dummy! No sound .
So, ever the tweaker I decided to investigate. Well, running aplay -l certainly confirmed that the card is indeed number 1. I could get sound no problems with gnome-mplayer (it can talk to the card directly), even setup retrovol (manually) no problem but alsa itself still wasn't working.
So, it dawned on me to run MultipleSoundCardWizard and select the one and only #1. Rebooted and it's all good.
I just wonder how many others could solve their sound issues this easily? It will be going into the release notes.
I also used to just unplug from one card and plug into the other
if changing to a puppy without sound (seem to remember doing this with fatdog)