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aplay -l no soundcard found

cat /proc/asound/cards ---no soundcards---

lspci | grep -i audio audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

It was working before a recent re-installation - the chipset is a Realtek ALC888B (I think it's an oddball but it usually works)

Couldn't find anything in the wiki or forums for "no soundcard found"

Thanks

I googled the card and some people seem to have the problem that something else is detected as the sound card; if it's anything like that, I think you can just select the right card in alsamixer.

At the time (previous install) the mixer would not start - Gstreamer no card found
Since then I re-installed and it seemed to find a card

root[/]# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

root[/]# lspci | grep -i audio
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

Two devices show up in "System" "Alsa sound card"
Default - Use the default ALSA sound card
SB HDA-Intel-HDA ATI SB

The Mixer just shows Realtek ALC887-VD (OSS Mixer) and Sound does not currently work

When it was working (1st install) the Mixer also had HDA ATI SB as a choice
This was after I had added the file snd-hda-intel.conf to /etc/modprobe.d as mentioned in another post.
with the line "options snd-hda-intel mode=auto"
When I do that now I get a Gstreamer backend error when opening Mixer

I have installed mulitlibs if that makes a difference

fixed !!!!!!
looked at another post where someone added a line to the file created in

/etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel.conf

the line in snd-hda-intel.conf is

options snd-hda-intel model=auto

NOT

options snd-hda-intel mode=auto

it's "model" not "mode" - forgot the "l"

I think I'll go to bed now

This has been solved as shown here