Sound Blaster Recon3D not working
I installed ubuntu 12.10 on my computer and I'm totally new to ubuntu. I cannot get my sound card to work, it's a sound blaster recon3D. I read that this card now has support on this ubuntu version(HDA creative). Here what happens: Sometimes when I turn on the computer, it does not make any sound at all, but ubuntu detects it, I can configure the sound settings. Sometimes when I turn on my pc, every time a sound is played, I can hear only white noise(a realy loud noise) coming from my speakers and headphnoes. I tried to find something on the internet but I only found a solution that works for HDA Intel cards. As a work arround I'm using my HDMI audio that comes from my Nvidia video card (GTX570). Thanks every one!
Workaround
Open a terminal and run the following command:
echo "options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
Explanation
This will add a new line with options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1
to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
so that ALSA initializes with the proper options set instead of initializing ALSA with incompatible options, removing the module afterwards and reloading it with compatible options as described in the original answer.
Corresponding bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1166529
Original Answer
Ha! Found a solution myself. Here it goes:
Add these two lines before the command "exit 0" on the file rc.local on /etc directory:
rmmod snd_hda_intel
modprobe snd_hda_intel position_fix=1
This should fix.