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Trouble using the Xonar Essence STX soundcard

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I'm trying to get my Asus Xonar STX soundcard to work.

It is recognized in the kernal if i type:

aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: STX [Xonar STX], device 0: Multichannel [Multichannel]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: STX [Xonar STX], device 1: Digital [Digital]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I have already tried to disable the onboard sound device, This just means that i have no sound at all.

Another note, I can see the device listed on the alsamixer. It does seem to control the hardware to some extent. It will click the soundcard when i change the Analogue out. (in alsamixer as well as the System Settings -> Sound gui)

I not sure what the next step should be. Perhaps blacklisting the Video card sound device. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

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answered 1 Year ago puccop · Accepted Answer

I eventually took the sledgehammer approach, and reinstalled alsa, and parts of the ubuntu desktop.

Found here

Code:

cat /proc/asound/{version,cards,devices,hwdep,pcm,seq/clients}; sudo rm

/etc/asound.conf; sudo rm -r ~/.pulse ~/.asound* ;sudo rm ~/.pulse-cookie; sudo 

apt-get update; sudo apt-get install aptitude; sudo aptitude install paman gnome-

alsamixer libasound2-plugins padevchooser libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio; sudo lshw 

-short;ls -lart /dev/snd;  cat /dev/sndstat; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo which alsactl; 

sudo fuser -v /dev/dsp /dev/snd/* ; dpkg -S bin/slmodemd; dmesg | egrep 

'EMU|probe|emu|ALSA|alsa|ac97|udi|snd|ound|irmware'; sudo /etc/init.d/sl-modem-

daemon status; sudo grep model /etc/modprobe.d/* ; sudo dmidecode|egrep 

'anufact|roduct|erial|elease'; lsmod | egrep 'snd|usb|midi|udio'; pacmd list-sinks; 

aplay -l; sudo alsa force-reload;  ubuntu-support-status ; sudo lshw -C sound

Sound is now working after reboot.

Keep in mind that there more precise methods found in the above troubleshooter. This is not the best first option.