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inconsistant sound-always works in rythembox

Asked by petebass4life

hi, this is my first thread so here goes,
My sound card cm8738 works fine with rhythembox and the autodetect in the system>preferences>sound when set to C-Media PCI DAC/ADC or C-Media PCI IE958 the trouble is when i try to play any movies or dvd's and firefox and log in. it rarely works in those applications i think this is because the soundcard im trying to use is not the inbuiilt soundcard and for some reason its trying to select the other inbuilt soundcard (sis966). I have logitech x-530 surround hooked up to it and it works great with rythembox. It would be great if someone could show me how to make my cm8738 soundcard as my default otherwise i might try breaking my inbuilt one :). Also if someone could tell me what settings i should use for my surround sound system. Thankyou.

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petebass4life (pete-bass4life) said : 		#1

when i run lspci i get the following:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 671MX
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 01)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 02)
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SATA Controller / IDE mode (rev 03)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 22)
00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
00:0f.0 Audio device: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Azalia Audio Controller
00:1f.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT (rev a1)

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petebass4life (pete-bass4life) said : 		#2

i just worked it out
i installed
asoundconf-gtk
can be found here
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/sound/
it selects your default sound card works straight away