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creative sound blaster zx support

Asked by Dominik Aksamit

I don't get any sound through my Sound Blaster ZX soundcard.
I have ubuntu studio 13.10 and 3.11 low-latency kernel

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=d76422925e59a5e4fb7a2bc38d39d69065da44cd

what i should have done?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Do you use the onboard sound? If not, why have you not turned it off in BIOS?

Have you set the right device for output in the sound settings?

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Dominik Aksamit (dapsyduck) said : 		#2

before i worked good on windows 8. but ale prefer ubuntu.
onboard sound is turned off.
it seems should be good but still i have no sound.

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Dominik Aksamit (dapsyduck) said : 		#3

http://i.imgur.com/ySyxGPV.png
what is wrong?

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#4

Your ALSA Terminal output shows this issue:

[ 8.057077] ca0132 DOWNLOAD FAILED!!! DSP IS NOT RUNNING.

I believe your sound card is experiencing these bugs:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1166529
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1176072
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1182741

I know it does not solve the issue. But I would personally remove and sell the Sound Blaster ZX and enable on-board sound, if you want to keep using Linux...

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Dominik Aksamit (dapsyduck) said : 		#5

and i wolud like to know i it will works in virtuabox windows?

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#6

You could always try, but I don't think it will.

Virtualbox uses virtualized hardware that relies on the real hardware to work correctly on the host operating system.

The real hardware on the host OS (Ubuntu) is not working correctly. So it would seem logical that the soundcard will not work on the guest O.S. either...

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#7

If I were you, I would just sell the Sound blaster card....

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Dominik Aksamit (dapsyduck) said : 		#8

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.