[Alsa-user] Creative Extreme Audio Notebook (CA0110)

[Piotr S <haw...@gm...>]

Hi.

I have a strange situation, cause as I seen people have problems in
getting this card to work but I can't even get it to be seen by aplay.

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory
Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI
Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2
EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2
EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface
Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E)
IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM
(ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce
9300M G] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications L1 Gigabit Ethernet (rev b0)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
[Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
06:00.0 PCI bridge: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG
PCI to PCIe Bridge
07:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG
0a:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
0a:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro
Host Adapter (rev 22)
0a:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
0a:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
Adapter (rev 12)
0a:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)

lspci -n
06:00.0 0604: 1102:7006
07:00.0 0403: 1102:0009

aplay -l
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC660-VD Analog [ALC660-VD Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC660-VD Digital [ALC660-VD Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

cat proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfebf8000 irq 33

Aplay sees only the integrated card, which can't get disabled in BIOS.

lsmod | grep snd
snd_pcm_oss            32591  0
snd_mixer_oss          12606  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_codec_ca0110     5280  0
snd_ctxfi              72749  0
snd_hda_codec_si3054     3190  1
snd_hda_codec_realtek   235602  1
snd_hda_intel          20019  1
snd_hda_codec          54244  4
snd_hda_codec_ca0110,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               5380  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                60503  5
snd_pcm_oss,snd_ctxfi,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              15582  1 snd_pcm
snd                    46446  13
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_codec_ca0110,snd_ctxfi,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer

             soundcore               4598  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          6249  3 snd_ctxfi,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

I'm not advanced in linux but I've tried everything I found on the net
and what people suggested me on a DUG forum.

Can You help?

System: Debian SID 2.6.32-5-amd64
Laptop: Asus F3SG