Mandrake with SB Audigy

[Johnny2003]

I use Mandrake9.1 with a Sound Blaster Audigy and I do not get sound from it. If I unplug from the Audigy card and plug into the built in sound I can hear my cd. I'm typing this from my WinXP so I can't look ay my system values right now but give me a list of things to look for and I will post results and we can try to debug the problem. I did read a bunch of forums and tried several things but being brand new I am not having much luck. I thank you ahead of time for any help and/or suggestions.

[terets]

Try disabling the onboard sound card first. You should be able to do that within the BIOS. Then see if you're audigy is running correctly. Also make sure that the right module is loaded for the audigy card. Do an lsmod and then verify that ( think for the audigy it is the same) you see an emu101k or something like that loaded. I don't know anything about mandrake though, i just know the old fashioned way of dealing with hardware...hehe

[Johnny2003]

I turned off the onboard sound in BIOS. Still no sound. These are some of the settings I was able to track down. Remember I am very wet behind the ears.

Control Center:
Sound Driver: 3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.90rc8 emulation code)
Kernal: Config Options: 0
Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config: Sound Blaster Audigy (rev.3) at 0xc000, irq 11
Audio Devices: 0: EMU10K1 (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: 0: EMU10K1
Midi devices: 0: Audigy MPU-401 (UART)
Timers: 7: system timer
Mixers: 0: TriTech TR28602

IO Ports:
c000-c01f Creative Labs SB Audigy
c000-c01f EMU10K1
d400-d43f Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 7012 PCI Audio Accelerator
d800-d8ff (same as d400-d43f)
dc00-dc07 Creative Labs SB Audigy Midi/Game port

I hope this helps. I open KsCD and when I input a cd it starts to play and shows in the KsCD player, just no sound.

What is lsmod? Is it LSMOD but small letters?

Thanks again.

[terets]

Yeah, LSMOD in small letters. It lists all modules that are running (effectively drivers that were not compiled into the kernel).

Not sure if you've done this already, but did you connect the cable running from the CD to your onboard card to the CD-IN on the Audigy?

It does look to be loading the driver properly, but i'm not too sure how to read the output of the control center. Someone else would probably have more input for that...i'm just a Gentoo guy. It does look like it's using the ALSA library.

Do other sounds play on your machine?

[Johnny2003]

I ran lsmod after figuring out that I needed to run it in the root system. These are the values that I believe we are looking for:

snd-emu10k1 69268 1 [snd-emu10k1-synth]
snd-ac97-codec 40160 0 [snd-emu10k1]

I didn't pop the cover to ensure that my sound card has the wire that connects the audio from the cd player but my system works fine when I run WinXP from my other hard drive. Remember I am running a dual boot system. So I kind of process of illiminated it. As of the question if I get other sounds. I do not get any except I can get a system beep from the built in speaker in the computer tower if I set it to provide one with an error. It does not come from any of the Creative Labs speakers. I'm sure of that.
Once again I thank you in advance for all your help. I look forward to hearing from anyone that can help.