After the last experiments and rebooting this time there is a new situation without sound.
The soundblaster card is now card 2 and ALSA is working with aplay -D hw:2,0 /usr/share/sounds/sound-icons/canary-long.wav As you can see in the screenshot the card has been found by pulseaudio, but when it is moved up to the first position it cannot be used when you click on test. The error says that the device cannot be selected. What is going on with PulseAudio here? I tried to contact pulseaudio-disc...@lists.freedesktop.org with this problem and linked this bug ... $ aplay -l **** Liste der Hardware-Geräte (PLAYBACK) **** Karte 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], Gerät 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog] Sub-Geräte: 0/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], Gerät 1: VT1708S Digital [VT1708S Digital] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], Gerät 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 2: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], Gerät 0: ES1371/1 [ES1371 DAC2/ADC] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 Karte 2: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], Gerät 1: ES1371/2 [ES1371 DAC1] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
