Sound Blaster Audigy 2 - no sound

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I just installed Neon for the second time on this computer and I have no sound coming out of my speakers. The first time I installed Neon, this morning, sound was working just fine. Clicked on the Test button and all 5 speakers and subwoofer worked fine. I then installed the wrong video driver and couldnt’ get back into the system so I wiped and reinstalled. This time I have the correct video driver installed but now have no sound.

The OS recognizes the card. When I go to Sound in System Settings, the card is shown “EMU10k2/CA0100/CA0102/CA10200 [(Sound Blaster Audigy Series](SB0350 Audigy 2 ZS) Analog Surround 5.1”. In the profile I chose Analog Surround 5.1 Output + Analog Mono Input (just like I did on the first install). However when I click test and click on each of the speakers, nothing comes out.

On the computer I have the volume set to 100% and on my speaker system (Logitech 5.1 Surround System) set nearly at the highest level.

I rebooted to the Live USB and sound works fine there so it’s just an issue with this installed on disk version.

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I used to have this card and it sometimes happened that the channel volumes were reset to 0. Or just one that controlled all others (called something like DSP). So I would open some mixer application, for example alsamixer in the terminal, use F6 to select the soundcard and check all the channel volumes to see if they are OK.

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Thanks for the info JLP. However, this wasn’t the issue. I checked the Balance button in the Sound config and they were all at about 50%. Since I hadn’t gotten the sound to work, I didn’t do anything on the system (install more apps) so I decided to say screw it and I reinstalled Neon. Sound is working now. Don’t know what was wrong but it’s not wrong now.