OK. At the risk of sounding stupid, but this might help someone else, so let me first state that sound is working now.
This is one reboot after the last posting. Putting down everything that I have done: 1. Followed this post to guide me towards kernel compiling to enable OSS (http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2010/11/22/how-to-compile-a-ubuntu-10-10 -maverick-kernel-with-sched-automated-per-tty-task-groups-kernel-patch/) - I did not need TTY but I wanted to use 2.6.35-23-40 kernel as used in the post as v41 was giving issues in compiling 2. During editconfigs in the instruction (refer link above) I selected most of the OSS modules and also enabled the three OSS options under ALSA (Device drivers in kernel config) 3. Installed OSSv4.2-build2003 from source (oss4-base, oss4-dkms, oss4-source, oss4-gtk packages are showing right now in package list, some of them may be older installations) 4. Installed ALSA from source (http://www.alsa- project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-usb-audio). Only followed the Quick Installation part. 5. Purged and reinstalled sound packages: $ apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils $ api alsa-base* alsa-utils* asoundconf-gtk* linux-sound-base* oss4-base* 6. Ran $ dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base : selected ALSA 7. Edited /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and commented the following lines: #options bt87x index=-2 #options snd-usb-audio index=-2 #options snd-usb-audio index=-2 Also commented a bunch of others, but probably they are not pertinent. 8. Edited /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-alsa.conf and removed references to bt87x and snd-usb*. (However, the file got deleted on reboot) 9. Created this file nano /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf: alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=0 10. Tried $ alsa reload : Nothing happened actually 11. Tried $ modprobe snd-usb-audio : Nothing happened, but more importantly, there were no error messages 12. Reinstalled backports and did $ depmod -a : Promptly, forgot to reboot :-( as was suggested here - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/200338/comments/133 13. Saw mail in inbox, ran the alsa-info.sh test adn uploaded the files above 14. Rebooted and voila: Sound is working. Line-In is not working so the audio-out from WinFast TV 2000 PCI TV Tuner card is attached to MIC in on the motherboard - but that is a minor problem Attaching new info file - the blacklist removal seems to work. Am not sure about the value of other steps though, but that it the path that I took :-) ** Attachment added: "alsa-info.txt.g0TxBynMPb" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/692001/+attachment/1770119/+files/alsa-info.txt.g0TxBynMPb ** Summary changed: - Kmix, TvTime, Amarok, SMplayer - No sound + [SOLVED] ASUS M2n-E SLI OnBoard USB Sound Device CM6501, Maverick 10.10, Sound problem. Kmix, TvTime, Amarok, SMplayer - Not working -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692001 Title: [SOLVED] ASUS M2n-E SLI OnBoard USB Sound Device CM6501, Maverick 10.10, Sound problem. Kmix, TvTime, Amarok, SMplayer - Not working -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
