No Sound Using older M-Audio Delta 2496 Audiophile Card

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#21

Well, I screwed up bigtime and broke my system. Will have to do a fresh install and I’m having problems with making a bootable image. Thanks for all help. I will tackle it again with a fresh system after I figure out how to get a bootable image.

#22

OK. Did a reinstall, and no surprise, the lack of sound from the m-audio card is still a problem. I am not one to give up easily, because I think there must be a solution to the problem. Below is the output last requested.


john@localhost:~> pactl list sinks| egrep -i "port|output" 
        Name: alsa_**output**.pci-0000_00_14.2.iec958-stereo 
        Monitor Source: alsa_**output**.pci-0000_00_14.2.iec958-stereo.monitor 
        **Port**s: 
                iec958-stereo-**output**: Digital **Output** (S/PDIF) (type: SPDIF, priority: 0, availability unknown) 
        Active **Port**: iec958-stereo-**output**
        Name: alsa_**output**.pci-0000_04_05.0.analog-stereo 
        Monitor Source: alsa_**output**.pci-0000_04_05.0.analog-stereo.monitor 
        **Port**s: 
                analog-**output**: Analog **Output** (type: Analog, priority: 9900, availability unknown) 
        Active **Port**: analog-**output**
#23

Ok, and are the active ports as you expect? If not, change as required with pavucontrol.

Also, try testing your sound as detailed in the wiki.

#24

OK mark this tread as solved. The Envy24 driver installs the M-audio Audiophile 2496 card with the volume control sliders in the 0 position. The only way to adjust the gain on this card is to separately install the Envy24 controller. The controller does not install with the driver. I have sound!!! (hi-quality sound) Thank you for your help. This tread should help anyone who is still tinkering with this old but very high-quality sound card.

#25

Good to read of your success with this. I had to search up what you meant by Envy24 controller, and found that there is an ‘envy2control’ utility (package of the same name) described here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/envy24control

and a quick search located it

~> sudo zypper se -s envy 
Loading repository data... 
Reading installed packages... 

S | Name          | Type    | Version     | Arch   | Repository 
--+---------------+---------+-------------+--------+---------------- 
  | envy24control | package | 0.6.0-12.50 | x86_64 | Main Repository

Reference:

http://www.polarhome.com/service/man/?qf=envy24control&tf=2&of=OpenSuSE&sf=1