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Sound card works with Live CD - but not on installation

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#1

Hey.

After a few sound card switches, my sb live! won't work within my main drive ubuntu, but springs to life at a Live CD boot. Can I reset my hardware detection, or whatever I now have to do, without reinstalling the OS?

lspci detects the card without problems, but my gnome volume controller has a red x next to it, and the "default sound card" box under system/preferences/sound is clean empty. aplay -l gives: "aplay: device_list:218: no soundcards found..."

Cheers,

  • northie
#2

Solved this with the inexhaustible help of crimsun in #ubuntu. I'd messed up some drivers well and good, and had to reinstall my kernel with "sudo apt-get --reinstall install linux-image-$(uname -r)", whereupon I could load the driver with "sudo modprobe emu10k1"