Hello,
I have been trying to sort out getting my sound card working and haven’t been having luck. Using pulseaudio. I have used alsamixer, sound settings in KDE, and I configured the sound card in YaST. After I configured the card, when I select it and specify an audio output format, the card output disappears from Sound Settings. Here is a video I recorded demonstrating the issue:
After exiting the configuration of the sound card, you can see by the applet in the lower right indicates there is no longer any sound output, though sound was working while I had the configurator open and had the sound card output selected.
After this, I rebooted the PC and the sound card output still doesn’t appear, but the sound card input does appear. I connect to the sound card through a DAC (Astro A50 Wireless Generation 1) but I don’t use it wirelessly. I connect my headset to the Astro DAC via mini-USB, the Astro DAC is connected to my PC via USB and via S/PDIF optical cable to the sound card. I’m able to get stereo sound to my headset through the Astro DAC since it’s connected via USB to the PC, but there isn’t surround sound support by just using the Astro DAC. What should be happening is that I pass 5.1 surround sound from the sound card to the Astro DAC and from the Astro DAC to the headset. All three are 5.1 surround sound capable.
Here is a screenshot of my sound settings post reboot:
jun@fragbox:~> sudo lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (Lewisville) (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev b4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Q65 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port Desktop SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
04:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D / Z-Series] (rev 01)
Device in question from output of lspci is
04:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D / Z-Series] (rev 01)
jun@fragbox:~> lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 9886:0001 Astro Gaming ASTRO Wireless Transmitter
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04f2:2030 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Ergonomic USB Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c52f Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 054c:0268 Sony Corp. Batoh Device / PlayStation 3 Controller
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0930:021c Toshiba Corp. Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
From lsusb I can see the Astro A50 at
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 9886:0001 Astro Gaming ASTRO Wireless Transmitter
I have added my user to the *Audio *group and the *Wheel *group. Here is the group list below:
jun@fragbox:~> getent group
root:x:0:
shadow:x:15:vnc
trusted:x:42:
users:x:100:
lock:x:499:
messagebus:x:498:
systemd-journal:x:497:
systemd-network:x:496:
systemd-timesync:x:495:
kmem:x:494:
tty:x:5:
utmp:x:493:
audio:x:492:pulse,jun
cdrom:x:491:
dialout:x:490:
disk:x:489:
input:x:488:
lp:x:487:
render:x:486:
sgx:x:485:
tape:x:484:
video:x:483:
nogroup:x:65533:
nobody:x:65534:
mail:!:482:postfix
chrony:!:481:
maildrop:x:59:postfix
postfix:x:51:
kvm:x:36:
tftp:x:480:dnsmasq
srvGeoClue:!:479:
pulse-access:x:478:
pulse:!:477:
man:x:62:
flatpak:!:476:
daemon:x:2:
wheel:x:475:jun
audit:x:474:
mysql:!:60:
polkitd:x:473:
avahi:!:472:
dnsmasq:!:471:
bin:x:1:daemon
rtkit:x:470:
scard:x:469:
sshd:!:468:
nscd:x:467:
ntadmin:x:71:
nm-openconnect:!:466:
nm-openvpn:!:465:
vnc:x:464:
sddm:!:463:
games:x:462:
vboxguest:x:461:
vboxsf:x:460:
vboxvideo:x:459:
vboxusers:x:458:jun
I can post a hardinfo report if needed. Maybe it’s not possible for this to work in a linux OS.