I don't really know why sound is working on my machine rn. I think there is some kind of embedded USB bus AMD thingy that generates some digital stream that is simply played by a set of DACs on my mobo. The chipset listed in the motherboard manual seems irrelevant.
The capacitor in my speakers is dying again, I bought these speakers back in 2006 and have hardly ever turned them off since. So they don't have much gain anymore, So I need some boost from the card.... Because I need to change a setting, alsamixer just dies when I try to configure it. When I try to select USB audio, the thing instantly crashes to desktop. atg@tortoise ~ $ alsamixer cannot load mixer controls: Broken pipe atg@tortoise ~ $ B L E H ! ! ! ! -- The vaccine is a LIE. Powers are not rights.