The system sees my card no problem and loads the proper driver according to the sound card wiki. I can select the card in Gnome settings, but the settings don't persist after closing the applet. If I change the input channel to my line input, my output changes from the SoundBlaster to the onboard sound card headphones. Then when I change the output to match my card and close the applet and reopen, the input is missing. I have set the default sound card in alsa and in the system. Nothing works.

When I reboot I get the brief I just started a sound card noise, call it a pop, just enough to tell me my powered speakers are working. I have just replaced a working sound card that I was having trouble recording in ardour. It played back fine but I could not get any sound into any of my sound programs with it. My new card has a Linux driver and a line input, which that is my goal to get working. Of course, being able to hear what I have recorded would be nice, too. I tried to set my default card with pactl but all that does is kill pulseaudio so that no cards show. That command is evil. Took me two days to find out I had to restart pulseaudio to see my sound cards again.

I can set my sound card as default with command line alsa and pulse but nothing works. And the prior symptoms described before persists. When I installed the card I did check to see if it worked with Ubuntu and everywhere I checked it was supposed to work. Unfortunately, it does not for me.

I can remember using Ubuntu 7.x and trying to get a SoundBlaster 16 (a good card at the time) working. Two months and alot of frustration later, I got it working with ndiswrapper. I didn't think I would have so much trouble these days as my other new card installed plug and play. I can't seem to get Ubuntu to use the card. Is it a PCIe problem? this is my first PCIe card.

I have heard of a solution involving shutting down the onboard card in the BIOS. That seems a little drastic but, if I have to, I will. I am very independent and like to figure these problems on my own, but I don't have two months to work on this. I Googled best cards for Ubuntu with line inputs and my SoundBlaster Audigy came up.

I am missing something?

dog-H61MH:~$ inxi -SMA
System: Host: coolestdog-H61MH Kernel: 5.13.0-37-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Gnome 3.36.9 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: BIOSTAR model: H61MH v: 6.0 serial: <superuser/root required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 4.6.4 date: 12/20/2011
Audio: Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Device-2: Creative Labs CA0108/CA10300 [Sound Blaster Audigy Series] driver: snd_emu10k1 Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.13.0-37-generic
cat /etc/asound.conf
defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1

Thank you

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