Re: Sound

[Jon Dowland <jon-dowland@ncl.ac.uk>]

David R. Litwin wrote:

> lspci returned the following for Multimedia audio controller:
> Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02).

I fired up http://www.alsa-project.org/, fed 'ensoniq' into the
soundcard list and got this:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Ensoniq#matrix

CT5880 (ES1373) => Details (ens1371
<http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Ensoniq&card=.&chip=ES1371%2C+ES1372%2C+ES1373%2C+CT5880+%28ES1373%29&module=ens1371>). 

 From your lspci output:

> snd_ens1371            23012  1

There she is! hmm. Now, you said that you had a creative labs
soundblaster in windows. Do you have more than one card in your machine?
I doubt it, but it's possible, and if so, you may have your speakers
plugged into the other one. That's a bit of a long-shot.

I only recently got my soundcard setup
(http://jon.dowland.name/log/geek/linux/debian/problems/). Try
installing 'alsaconf'?