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Garon_CrossBlade
05-08-2002, 08:43 PM
Hey,
I had to re-install Slackware 8.0 on my computer...I have no done this in a long time and i can't remember how to get my soundblaster live value working. I remeber somthing about chmoding the dsp and the mixers to 660 and adding aaudio group. But i can't remember exactly howe to do it so i cam on here. I looked around for my old posts about the question taht ii am asking right now i couldn't find them. I alo did a seacrch...but it also turned up nothing. If sombody could tell me what parts of the configuration of my soundblaster that i am missing that would be great...thanks.
mdwatts
05-09-2002, 05:41 AM
Does lsmod show sound or soundcore and also emu10k1 as being loaded?
PnP OS disabled in the bios so the SB Live's resources will be configured correctly?
If the necessary modules are loaded, /dev permissions set to 660 and the mixer volumes are adjusted (not muted), then I would think it should work.
Garon_CrossBlade
05-09-2002, 03:40 PM
lsmod doesn't show anything about emu10k1 or what ever, however last time that i confiugred my sound i don't remember doing anything with lsmod. Please help some more.
thanks for the help in advance.
mdwatts
05-09-2002, 05:29 PM
Try modprobe emu10k1 and see if the modules load without error.
What config tools does Slackware have for configuring soundcards? Anything to select what modules to load etc.?
Garon_CrossBlade
05-09-2002, 05:36 PM
OK, i did a modprobe and then a lsmod and the modules look like they are loaded. but still no sound. and slack doesn't have any programs that configure the sound that i know of. last time i just edited some files changed the owners on a few things and made sure that my kernnel had support for emu10k1. But i did that this time and it didn't work.
thanks for the help once again.
Do you have window installed? If yes, check windows setup. I use on-board sb16 soundcard. I had a strange problem. I can play .rm, .mp3 files, but not audio CD. These files played by SB16, and audio CD needs WSS, I think. In my windows, it loads both. I changed module.config file. Setted everything (interrupts, dma, IO) likes in windows. It didn't work. Then I changed module.config file again using cmpci instead sb, it loaded wss but not sb16 and worked for audio files and CD. You don't have any sound or can't play audio CD?
There is another thought. If I do min. installation, my sound card works fine, loads SB16 and WSS w/o problem. If I install everything I have to tell it is CMPCI NOT SB16 and only WSS works. My problem is related to NIC I think. The NIC needs IRQ 11 and WSS default IRQ is 11. it can use 5,7,9,10, but somehow it just doesn't do it.
Maybe u have same problem if u installed everything.
Garon_CrossBlade
05-13-2002, 02:13 AM
hmmm, i'll try finding out which irq's are being used. That sounds like it might be the problem.
Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
05-13-2002, 03:47 AM
I think this is what you need to do:
chmod 660 /dev/dsp
chgrp audio /dev/dsp
and then make sure that any user you want to have sound is a member of the group audio.
If all of the modules are loaded properly (which it seems they are) this should work. Slackware doesn't seem to have the right permissions for /dev/dsp in the default install-- you have to change them yourself...
Garon_CrossBlade
05-13-2002, 10:07 AM
I've already tryed what you have desrcibed. I even changed the mixer* (the star means that there is more than one...there where more then one dsp also) to 660 and chgrp it to audio. I added root and my other users to the audio group and it still doesn't work.
ssadams
05-13-2002, 12:48 PM
uncomment the soundcore and emu10k1 lines in
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules
they are about 1/3 down the file.