EchoAudio – How to Get Sound in Ubuntu With Echo Audio Layla 20

You are running Ubuntu Studio version 10.04 Linux operating system on a Dell model 8200 computer system. Your problem is with your Echoaudio Layla twenty audio card. It seems totally not detected.

If you run the lshw command in a terminal window it is not mentioned by name, just unclaimed multimedia. Your Linux knowledge is limited and you just moved over from Microsoft Windows eXPerience. Ideally, you are looking for a script that you can run in order to do a whole setup in case you have to install that operating system again.

You have spent ages going through forums, but you do not know Linux very well, your Microsoft disk operating system is ok and your general personal computer knowledge is intermediate level so to speak. You will want to verify what version of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sound driver you have installed on your Ubuntu Studio version 10.04 operating system. You will want to type this command cat /proc/asound/version into a terminal window. An output should look similar to this below:

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.

If you have version 1.0.23 then you do not need to upgrade your version of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. If it is version 1.0.22 or below you should uprade it. Upgrading to 1.0.23 and then rebooting your computer might fix your issue.

Here are some instructions in order to install the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture script. You will want to download a Advanced Linux Sound Architecture upgrade script and save it. You will need to create an account on ubuntuforums.org in order to access that script.

Then you will want to type all of these commands below one at a time into a terminal window.

cd
tar xvf AlsaUpgrade-1.0.23-2.tar
sudo ./AlsaUpgrade-1.0.23-2.sh -d
sudo ./AlsaUpgrade-1.0.23-2.sh -c
sudo ./AlsaUpgrade-1.0.23-2.sh -i
sudo shutdown -r 0

After reboot you can type this command:

$ cat /proc/asound/version

This will let you know if you qre running the new version of that sound driver. You will want to make certain that all your channels are not muted and the volume is turned up. Then you can type into a terminal window this command:

$ aplay -l

If you still have no sound then you will want to type this command into a terminal window:

$ aplay -l

Then you can type the following command in order to see if your soundcard was detected:

$ cat /proc/asound/cards

If you see your sound card, you are almost finished. In order for you to test your soundcard, you will want to type the following command, for example where X is your soundcard:

$ aplay -Dplughw:X,0 -fcd /your-music-directory/replace-this-with-your-soundfile.wav

or for example:

$ speaker-test -Dplughw:X,0 -c2

You will want to replace an X with an index of your soundcard index, which you can find out by typing aplay -l and look for your soundcard X.

You can test a multichannel soundcard with the following way, by typing:

$aplay -L in order to find out about your personal computer memory device for example surround51. That is an upper case L.

$speaker-test -D surround51 -c6

Note: If a channel mapping is wrong you need to adjust it in .asoundrc

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You will want to check to see if your alsamixer channels are activated and not muted in Gnome Mixer, Volume Control, and then Preferences. Very often there are headphone jack, Sony Philips Digital Interface, or microphone issues reported. Usually this has something to do with wrong alsamixer settings or more seldom with a wrong model identification assigned to your sound driver in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file.

If you are lacking certain controls in alsamixer or your driver is not even being loaded, you should check out your model identification in an attached HD-Audio-Models.txt file. I strongly suggest you try similar model identifications matching your audio codec in order to checkout if your faulty soundcard function starts working.

You will want to edit your alsa-base.conf file:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

You will want to look for options snd-hda-intel index=-2. Also, you will need to lookup your soundcard model in HD-Audio-Models.txt file and change that entry accordingly:

options snd-hda-intel index=-2 model=XXXXX

Then you will want to save, exit, and restart your computer.

If your Ubuntu Studio version 10.04 operating system seems to have detected your sound card now you can proceed further. In a sound mixer panel you will want to browse to Playback, Internal Audio Analog Stereo (PulseAudio Mixer), then add a master control to that panel followed by disabling the mute option. Then you will want to test in order to see if you now have audio.

Also, if you still have no sound, you can try starting pulseaudio by typing this command:

$pulseaudio

You will want to test in order to see if you have sound now. If you do then, pulse audio is not configured to start on bootup of the Ubuntu Studio version 10.04 operating system. Another thing to try is to adjust that alsamixer volume.

You will want to type this command:

$ alsamixer

You will need to check to see if it shows MM under any of some playback devices such as Master, Speaker, etcetera. MM means that left plus right stereo channels are muted. You can toggle muting on or off by pressing a m key, then use those arrow keys in order to navigate and change it to OO. Also, if you still hear no sound you can try removing and installing pulse audio again.

$ sudo apt-get remove –purge alsa-base

$ sudo apt-get remove –purge pulseaudio

$ sudo get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove

$ sudo apt-get install alsa-base

$ sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

If your computer system has two audio devices, you may need to disable your onboard audio device in your basic input output system. Ubuntu should find both devices, but it might be worth disabling your onboard audio in order to get your echoaudio card working. It looks as if card 1 is your onboard audtio and card 0 would be your echoaudio card.

card 1: I82801BAICH2 [Intel 82801BA-ICH2], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801BA-ICH2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

You will want to type in this command:

$ aplay -L

That is a capital L, which will search for a multichannel sound card. Using aplay with a lower case l looks for single channel cards. In order to install alsa mixer if its not already installed you will want to type this command:

$ sudo apt-get install alsa-mixer

These instructions and tips were written for Ubuntu Studio version 10.04 operating system. However, you could certainly use them as a basis point for troubleshooting your EchoAudio sound card in other Linux operating systems. However, the commands may not be exactly the same.