getting soundcard to work

[crazed_canuck]

I have never been able to get my sound working under Linux. It works fine under Windows 98. Here is my set-up as far as sound goes...

Creative Soundblaster Live! (value)
Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Theatre 5.1 DTT 2500 Digital
5 speakers and a sub

When I use redhat's 'hardware browser', I get this under the soundcard tab (so it looks like it is picking something up)...
ASC Audio Controller
SB Live! EMU10000


I have also did a lsmod to check if emu10k1 is loaded and it is on the list...

emu10k1 49584 0 (autoclean)

cheers.

[mdwatts]

I've read in some of the many other posts here on SB Live problems that digital speakers are not supported.

Have a look around this forum and the Technical support forum for those threads to verify this.

[crazed_canuck]

I have just got the system sounds to work but am still having problems getting the cd player to work. I just read a thread below with someone having the same problem. What I did to get the system sounds to work was:

rmmod audio
modprobe emu10k1
sndconfig //configured to soundblaster

I have checked the sound cable and it is there. I also have sound running properly from win98.

any suggestions?

[klrmar]

I have tried using the google search to look at sound problems for Linux. Depending on how you phrase the inquiry (I punched in "linux sound server problems") you could get over 68,000 possible hits. That is a lot of hits to go through. :(

[xxundog69]

hey canuck, what distro you using? cause im having a hell of a time getting my sblive! to work with mandrake 8.1......... :confused:

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by xxundog69:
<STRONG>hey canuck, what distro you using? cause im having a hell of a time getting my sblive! to work with mandrake 8.1......... :confused:</STRONG>

You are??? Why didn't you mention that to us? ;) ;)

If you have PnP OS disabled in the bios then any distro should detect and load the correct modules for the SB Live.

lsmod should show

sound and/or soundcore
emu10k1

If they are NOT loaded, then

modprobe emu10k1

should load emu10k1 and also the other supporting modules (sound/soundcore) that are required.

The pc I'm using right now has a SB PCI-128 and I've never had to manually setup/configure/load modules to get it working with any of the versions of Caldera I've installed on this pc.

lsmod always has

es1370 25760 0
soundcore 3428 4 [es1370]

Does Mandrake have any docs/faq's on the SB Live somewhere on their website? I've heard they have a usergroup that may have others with the same problem and suggestions/solutions to the problem. The same would go for other distros.

[crazed_canuck]

hey canuck, what distro you using? cause im having a hell of a time getting my sblive! to work with mandrake 8.1.........

I just re-installed from mandrake 8 to redhat 7.2. same problem on both distros. :confused:

[ASCI Blue]

Might want to try ac97_codec too. I don't remember exactly what it's called since my linux recently died and I'm pondering a new distro but do a locate for ac97.

[mdwatts]

I figured that modprobe emu10k1 would load the other necessary modules. It's supposed to.

Both Redhat and Mandrake does not detect your SB Live?

Did you try any of my suggestions I posted here earlier? Especially the part about the PnP OS in the bios.