I have a really old PC ( Dell XPS 630i ) and i managed to access it via Vinagre out of my XFCE-stable Manjaro.
What i don’t get working is sound except out of Display port on my monitor. Strange thing: the main soundcard Soundblaster XFI work perfect in my Windows XP also on this old DEll XPS.
But here first inxi -F from Dell XPS:
john1@XPS:~$ inxi -F
System: Host: XPS Kernel: 5.4.0-126-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7 Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una
Machine: Type: Desktop System: Dell product: XPS 630i v: N/A serial: <superuser/root required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0PP150 v: A00 serial: <superuser/root required> BIOS: Dell v: 1.0.8 date: 07/15/2008
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo E8500 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 6144 KiB
Speed: 2000 MHz min/max: 2106/3335 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2000 2: 2000
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GF104 [GeForce GTX 460] driver: nvidia v: 390.154
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: nvidia tty: N/A
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 460/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.154
Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA GF104 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: Creative Labs EMU20k1 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Series] driver: snd_ctxfi
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-126-generic
Network: Device-1: NVIDIA MCP51 Ethernet type: network bridge driver: forcedeth
IF: enp0s20 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:1e:c9:51:d0:45
Drives: Local Storage: total: 931.52 GiB used: 196.53 GiB (21.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HDP725050GLA360 size: 465.76 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Hitachi model: HDP725050GLA360 size: 465.76 GiB
RAID: Hardware-1: NVIDIA MCP51 Serial ATA Controller driver: sata_nv
Hardware-2: NVIDIA MCP51 Serial ATA Controller driver: sata_nv
Partition: ID-1: / size: 95.90 GiB used: 14.89 GiB (15.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb7
ID-2: swap-1 size: 3.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 33 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 40%
Info: Processes: 218 Uptime: 47m Memory: 3.84 GiB used: 1.63 GiB (42.4%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38
Dell XPS journalctl -b
Picture of Display Port:
https://i.imgur.com/hffIYqw.png
I tried also a bunch of Linux live Distros with same issue: only display port sound is working:
What really puzzles me: SoundBlaster hardware is ok ( see above Windows XP ) but no linux can handle it ( see all tested Live DVD: Manjaro, ubuntu, Debian, Knoppix … )
I’m really interested whats going on here: for me there’s no logic!