[LAD] Audio vs ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe mobo

Greetings;

Up2date reinstall of the latest FU8 respin.

The various audio devices found by an lspci -vv on this mobo are:
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00:06.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81f6
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 21
        Region 0: Memory at fe024000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask+ 64bit+
Queue=0/0 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
                Masking: 00000000 Pending: 00000000
        Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
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01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value
        Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device 1001
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 32 (500ns min, 5000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
        Region 0: I/O ports at ac00 [size=64]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Kernel driver in use: EMU10K1_Audigy
        Kernel modules: snd-emu10k1
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03:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device aa10
        Subsystem: Diamond Multimedia Systems Unknown device aa10
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at fddfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [58] Express (v1) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <4us,
L1 unlimited
                        ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal-
Unsupported-
                        RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr-
TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1,
Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us
                        ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain-
CommClk+
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+
DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
        Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/0 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information <?>
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
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And there is also a pcHDTV-3000 which has a connexant audio but its obviously
a mic level output, and since tvtime doesn't work on the video card
associated with the last device listed above, the point is moot till it does
work.

The first device above I have not been able to get a peep out of, so I've made
the second one, the Audigy2, the default. And I have NDI where to plug
anything that looks like audio into that ATI based HD-2400-Pro video card,
but lspci says its there.

Testing the sound for the audigy2 in system-config-soundcard works, but places
like utube are silent. As is cnn et all since the last reboot.

2 questions:

do we have a 'vu meter' that can be switched to monitor the various audio
inputs?

And when I had to reinstall, I see that pulseaudio was installed, and a now
frozen 'lsof|grep audio' returns this, but has not returned a prompt.
[root@email-addr-hidden cards]# lsof |grep audio
pulseaudi 3473 root txt REG 8,3 57972
53801556 /usr/bin/pulseaudio
artsd 3528 root mem REG 8,3 96380
53795593 /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2.4
artsd 3528 root mem REG 8,3 171580
5603705 /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0.0.2

Is this yet another case where I need to remove as much PA as I can in order
to get working sound again, or is there a configurator for this PITA that
might be able to fix this? The silence here is deafening.

Thanks.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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