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(SOLVED) ASUS XONAR DG Wierd Sound Card Problem with Linux Mint

Post by PlutoPup » Thu Jun 15, 2017 8:40 pm

I have read some Topics on this from Linux Mint 13 — that said it worked — to Linux 14 and up — that said it didn’t work.

I have tried Linux Mint Mate 17.3 and Cinnamon, and also Linux Mint Cinnamon 18.1. Here is the problem:

I have the front Audio from the case hooked up — (you know the front jacks for headphones and mic) — I get sound from the front headphone jack (speakers plugged into the case front) but NO SOUND from the rear jacks. Why is this.? It’s obviously a driver issue that’s been going on a long time. I haven’t found a solution from the forums or web. Anybody out there know to make the rear jacks work.? ASUS Xonar DG

I only get a «headphones» option in the sound settings. If there is no solution for Linux and the Xonar PCI Card, can you tell me what PCI sound card with front audio for the case hook-up works with Linux,?

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Re: ASUS XONAR DG Wierd Sound Card Problem with Linux Mint

Post by TeaSwigger » Fri Jun 16, 2017 4:41 am

Hm, I have a Xonar ST PCI card in a case with front jacks like you describe plugged into it but normally use its rear analog (RCA) outs. No problems using any of the 4 outputs though (digital, analog RCA, rear headphone, front panel headphone). I pick the output in alsamixer (if you haven’t tried that, open a terminal and just enter alsamixer). In this case, there is an analog output line that one can toggle to switch between speakers, headphones and «fp headphones.» It might be different with pulseaudio installed (as it is by default; I’ve removed it for technical reasons) but there should still be a similar facility. Does the motherboard also have built-in sound? If so, perhaps that’s confusing things?

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Re: ASUS XONAR DG Wierd Sound Card Problem with Linux Mint

Post by PlutoPup » Fri Jun 16, 2017 9:29 am

TeaSwigger wrote: Hm, I have a Xonar ST PCI card in a case with front jacks like you describe plugged into it but normally use its rear analog (RCA) outs. No problems using any of the 4 outputs though (digital, analog RCA, rear headphone, front panel headphone). I pick the output in alsamixer (if you haven’t tried that, open a terminal and just enter alsamixer). In this case, there is an analog output line that one can toggle to switch between speakers, headphones and «fp headphones.» It might be different with pulseaudio installed (as it is by default; I’ve removed it for technical reasons) but there should still be a similar facility. Does the motherboard also have built-in sound? If so, perhaps that’s confusing things?

I have Onboard Sound, AC97, but it does not work so I switched it off in the Bios.

I installed the mixer last night but the only option I get is HEADPHONES, nothing else.

Should I get Xonar ST card.? The driver for the DG is correct but no sound from rear jacks.

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Re: ASUS XONAR DG Wierd Sound Card Problem with Linux Mint

Post by TeaSwigger » Fri Jun 16, 2017 1:57 pm

PlutoPup wrote: I installed the mixer last night but the only option I get is HEADPHONES, nothing else.

Did you have anything plugged into the front jacks when trying to use the rear jacks?

The way the default sound setup may be is (simplifying here), there’s the hardware, drivers etc in the kernel, a layer called ALSA, a layer called Pulseaudio, the audio backend and the app on top. Pulseaudio’s importance is debateable, it might be called an exchange used for convenience. If pulseaudio is being a problem, one could remove or disable it and use «straight» ALSA (wouldn’t recommend doing so unless you’re out of viable options). Maybe it’s a bug in the mixer app. We can sort of bypass the default mixer app by using alsamixer.

alsamixer is a command-line utility, a part of ALSA that should already be installed by default. I’ll attach a screenshot —

Unfortunately our different setups limit my ability to walk you through options. As you see there, F1 should bring up the help, which can tell you how to navigate around in it and use it (err, except that in Cinnamon at least, it instead brings up help for using the Terminal app. Argh. So, in a terminal, enter ‘man alsamixer’ which will display the help). Anyway. Over to the right side in this case, there’s «Analog O» [output] where I can switch outputs between speakers (RCA jacks), headphones (rear) and front panel headphones. I was hoping there’s something like that for your system. There may also be different volume and mute options for the different outputs, so you’d want to check the rear jacks aren’t muted for instance.

PlutoPup wrote: Should I get Xonar ST card.? The driver for the DG is correct but no sound from rear jacks.

The Xonar ST PCI card is fantastic, but may no longer be available. I’ve had it for years. There is or was also a PCI-E version though iirc it’s not quite as good. But the point of my attempted help above is that there’s surely a way to get the hardware you have working as you’d like.

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