robert d. de mars

Hello, and a good day to you all. I have been tring to get
my SB Live card working, and no matter what I try I just
can't get it to work. So now I am posting here for help.
I am running Slack 10.0.

I also have an ATI TV wonder-VE card in the machine as well,
and it could be possible that might be causing the problems,
but I really don't know.

My /proc/asound/cards reads as follows:
0 [Bt878 ]: Bt87x - Brooktree Bt878
Brooktree Bt878 at 0xeb102000, irq 5
1 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - Sound Blaster Live!
Sound Blaster Live! (rev.7) at 0xbc00,
irq 11

currently the only thing that works is the Line-In, and
nothing else.

I have the EMU10K1 setup as a module for the kernel, and I
am using alsa. I tried following the instructions for the
SB live from the alsa-project site, but it didn't work.

When I run alsaconf, it adds the following to my
/etc/modules.conf:
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.5 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

That does not seem to work at all. Since /proc/asound/cards
lists the SB Live as card # 1, I tried editing the
/etc/modules.conf to the following:
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.5 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-1 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

That does not work either. I just can't figure out what is
wrong.

If anyone has any idea what I might be doing wrong, it would
be greatly appreaciated if you could advise me.

Many Thanks,

Robert De Mars
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age huisman

Hi,

A retorical question : Are you using kde-3.3 from current ? :-)

rintek

robert d. de mars

Hi. No, I am still using kde-3.2.3. Does that matter?
Should I upgrade to 3.3?

Thanks,

Robert De Mars

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rintek wuuk

Hi,

I had the same problem with this soundcard when i was using kde-3.3
(current-testing)
When i downgraded to 3.2.3 i didn`t have any sound problems anymore.
( i personaly don`t use modules)

Could you please give me some more information:

Is there any sound at all ?
which kernel do you use ?
what is the output of lsmod ?

Age

robert d. de mars

Should I recompile the kernel with the emu10k1 driver built
into the kernel perhaps? Instead of using the module?

The only sound I get is from the Line-In. I have a small
radio hooked into Line-In, and that works. Nothing else
works though. I have tried to set all the volume levels to
max, but no go. Also, when I start kde I get a warning that
the sound server device could not be found.


I am using the bare.i kernel 2.4.27 from -current.
My system is basicly the stock 10.0. The only things I have
done to it is upgrade the security packages for 10.0, and
put in the 2.4.27 kernel from -current. Other than that,
it's all stock 10.0.


Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 37032 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 12280 1 [snd-pcm-oss]
usb-storage 62272 0 (unused)
uhci 24284 0 (unused)
usbcore 58732 1 [usb-storage uhci]
eepro100 18836 1
mii 2272 0 [eepro100]
snd-emu10k1 63368 1
snd-hwdep 4324 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-util-mem 1136 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-ac97-codec 49264 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-rawmidi 12324 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device 3696 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
emu10k1-gp 1192 0 (unused)
gameport 1420 0 [emu10k1-gp]
tuner 9640 1 (autoclean)
bttv 95680 0 (unused)
i2c-algo-bit 7112 1 [bttv]
i2c-core 12644 0 [tuner bttv i2c-algo-bit]
videodev 5760 2 [bttv]
snd-bt87x 4840 1
snd-pcm 55080 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1
snd-bt87x]
snd-timer 13444 0 [snd-pcm]
snd 30980 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss
snd-emu10k1 snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec
snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-bt87x snd-pcm snd-timer]
snd-page-alloc 4716 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1
snd-hwdep snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-bt87x snd-pcm
snd-timer snd]
soundcore 3396 10 [bttv snd]
ide-scsi 9104 0
agpgart 43684 0 (unused)

I hope this helps. If you need any other info, please let
me know.

Many Thanks,

Robert De Mars

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paulo r. dallan

Did you try, from the console:

"alsamixer"

turned up the volumes

and then:

"alsactl store"

Regards!

Paulo

sterling haas

I also have Slack 10.0 with a SoundBlaster Live. I wasn't at all
surprised when, after installing the OS, the sound wouldn't work: that's
par for the course for ALSA. I therefore removed ALSA and rebuilt my
kernel with OSS support. Everything has worked perfectly ever since.

Don't waste any time with ALSA - it is not worth it. ALSA is purported to
stand for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. A more fitting one would be
Annoying Linux Sound Architecture.

robert d. de mars

Hi. I have done that. Doesn't seem to do much though.

I actually have to do a alsamixer -c1 to access the SB Live
card. No matter what I seem to try I always get ths error
when I start KDE:
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (No such device)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

I am very frustrated. Thanks though.

Robert De Mars
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jeffrey froman

I have a SoundBlaster Live as well, and it has worked perfectly with every
distribution of Slackware since 7.0. When Slackware switched to ALSA, it
continued to work without incident, and sound quality improved.

Jeffrey

john bleichert

Just found this thread. KDE sound may not work if the snd-pcm-oss
ALSA module isn't loaded (it really should be by default). See if
snd-pcm-oss is loaded with lsmod, and if it isn't, load it with
modprobe and you should be fine.

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