SBLive! NHF not Newbie helpful

[supodin]

Some one please help... my sblive! card still doesn't work in my slackware 8.1!!!!! I have tried that NHF, but it didn't help, I went through all the steps, but no sound :mad:

Any help will be appriciated :D

Thank you

[JP83]

Do you have emu10k1 module.

[JP83]

Self compiled kernel could be the (easy) fix. I own SB Live sound card and that is always worked good whit those kernels that i'm compiled manually (tarballs of course).

[mdwatts]

Have you tried searching the forums?

The SBlive has been covered quite often.

You also already have support for the SBlive as all the latest distros include the emu10k1 module.

[Qwijibrumm]

because the emu10k1 (SBlive) module is included with slackware 8.1 all you should have to do is (as root)

/sbin/modprobe emu10k1

and the module should load. Check this with

/sbin/lsmod

hopefully it will be listed. Finnally to make the module load upon startup, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and uncomment (by removing the "#") the section under sound with "#/sbin/modprobe emu10k1"

if you cannot modprobe emu10k1 check the directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.18/drivers/sound/emu10k1
see if the module emu10k1.o is there. For some reason I seem to remember this module being gzipped there as emu10k1.o.gz. If so gunzip it, and try to modprobe emu10k1 again.

If you insist on building the newest version of the driver from source, make sure you have installed your kernel source headers. I once had that problem about a year ago on a redhat system. Then go to the emu10k1 source directory and

make
make (again for some weird reason)
su (if not already root)
(password)
make install
make tools
make install-tools
modprobe emu10k1

Well, I hope that covers about every possible scenario. Don't worry I was exactly where you're comming from on a couple different occasions. and these were all the things I had to do each time to get everything to work. Please post back with a further discription if things still don't work out so well.

-I thought I knew how to run linux... Then I tried Slackware. I then saw just a piece of how deep it can go.

[supodin]

THANK YOU!!! YOU ARE AMAZING!!! ::whew:: :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Qwijibrumm]

Which did you have to do?

[supodin]

the first easy as pie edit the file one