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Bonj
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Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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 Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:08 pm Post subject:
Soundblaster live on FC3 AMD64
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Hello
I have been trying to build linux on an AMD64 system for some time now. And
I now can't get the soundcard working, and I wonder if anybody has any tips.
My main beef was that I couldn't get ANY distribution to work with the
motherboard's on-board graphics chipset, a VIA K8M800 northbridge, after
searching on the internet I found umpteen blogs of problems with this
configuration so I was slightly put off. I did notice that when the
installer did its 'sound test' the sound card (onboard AC97 VIA K8T800
southbridge) worked.
I got a new nvidia gforce fx5200 graphics card in the hope that it would
solve the eternal 'no screens found / none have a usable configuration'
error, and it did, perfectly - no distributions had any problems running the
graphical installer, and started the X-server with no problems at all. The
animation was patchy as it was obviously running the graphics card off the
processor, but once the drivers were installed it was fine. However, this
rendered the sound card not working. However this required me setting the
'first init display' in bios to the AGP, which the nVidia is plugged into.
I thus assumed that this newfound lack of sound was because the motherboard
can either use *both* the onboard graphics and sound, or neither - and the
fact that I disabled one had meant that the other wouldn't work either, so I
went out and got a Soundblaster Live soundcard and plugged it into the PCI
slot. Logical assumption, or completely silly move? When I loaded FC2, it
listed my AC97 onboard sound card as 'configured' but it didn't work, and
the Soundblaster that I bought was recognized, but 'not configured'.
Now I searched on the internet for distributions that had the EMU10K1 module
which supports the soundblaster. Gentoo claimed to be one, but it has a
notoriously difficult 'manual' installer and while I'm enjoying doing it as
it's teaching me about what actually goes on in the installation process I
can't help wondering what distributions should work with my configuration,
i.e. AMD64, nVidia GForce FX5200, Soundblaster Live soundcard and whether
Fedora ever could have been got to work.
Anyone else have this configuration, any comments?
p.s. Although I'm increasingly liking linux I'm coming from a windows
background primarily and still on the steep part of the linux learning curve
so please explain what to you may seem obvious! |
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mjt
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:08 pm Post subject:
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Bonj wrote:
| Quote: | Now I searched on the internet for distributions that had the EMU10K1 module
which supports the soundblaster. Gentoo claimed to be one, but it has a
notoriously difficult 'manual' installer and while I'm enjoying doing it as
it's teaching me about what actually goes on in the installation process I
can't help wondering what distributions should work with my configuration,
i.e. AMD64, nVidia GForce FX5200, Soundblaster Live soundcard and whether
Fedora ever could have been got to work.
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.... why not try a live cd or two, such as knoppix, just
to check on the hardware end of things. i wouldnt
recommend FC unless you're prepared to fiddle.
on the sound front, you didnt mention "which sound" you're
not getting. some people dont get sound while running the
CD player - this is sometimes due to the fact that the
sound wire is missing, which goes from the CD player out
to the sound card [cd] in plug.
you might also bring up the mixer and ensure that the
various channels arent muted and the volume levels are
not set to 'off'
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General Schvantzkoph
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:37 pm Post subject:
Re: Soundblaster live on FC3 AMD64
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:08:50 +0000, Bonj wrote:
Give Mandrake 10.1 a try. It has the best installer and configuration
tools of any distrobution. |
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John-Paul Stewart
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:17 pm Post subject:
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Bonj wrote:
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Now I searched on the internet for distributions that had the EMU10K1 module
which supports the soundblaster. Gentoo claimed to be one
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AFAIK, all current distros support the Sound Blaster Live.
You should be aware that there are two different drivers for the EMU10K1
chip: there's the emu10k1 module (based on work from Creative and part
of the OSS sound drivers) and the snd-emu10k1 module (part of the ALSA
drivers which are included in 2.6.x kernels and available as add-on
packages for 2.4.x kernels). The two different drivers support
different sub-sets of the card's features. Pick the one that best suits
your needs. But more importantly, don't get the instructions for the
different drivers mixed up. If you start following instructions for the
OSS driver and then find another site with ALSA instructions... things
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kkho
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:13 pm Post subject:
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I too faced similar problem but with SB Live 24 Bit on an Intel.
You should go to ALSA webpage and download the latest drivers,
utilities, tools, etc.
Follow the instructions and reboot your comp. Kudzu should be able to
detect your hardware.
For more info, visit this website:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=29425&highlight=soundblaster
Hope this helps.
K.K.
John-Paul Stewart wrote:
| Quote: | Bonj wrote:
Now I searched on the internet for distributions that had the EMU10K1
module which supports the soundblaster. Gentoo claimed to be one
AFAIK, all current distros support the Sound Blaster Live.
You should be aware that there are two different drivers for the EMU10K1
chip: there's the emu10k1 module (based on work from Creative and part
of the OSS sound drivers) and the snd-emu10k1 module (part of the ALSA
drivers which are included in 2.6.x kernels and available as add-on
packages for 2.4.x kernels). The two different drivers support
different sub-sets of the card's features. Pick the one that best suits
your needs. But more importantly, don't get the instructions for the
different drivers mixed up. If you start following instructions for the
OSS driver and then find another site with ALSA instructions... things
may not go so well. |
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Anton Ertl
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject:
Re: Soundblaster live on FC3 AMD64
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"Bonj" <a@b.com> writes:
| Quote: | I thus assumed that this newfound lack of sound was because the motherboard
can either use *both* the onboard graphics and sound, or neither - and the
fact that I disabled one had meant that the other wouldn't work either, so I
went out and got a Soundblaster Live soundcard and plugged it into the PCI
slot. Logical assumption, or completely silly move?
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Rather the latter. I have yet to see a board where the on-board
components cannot be disabled independently (if they can be disabled).
What does lspci say? What does lsmod say? Do you see the AC97 driver
in the dmesg output?
Maybe you just got the output muted for some unrelated reason. Play
around with the mixer and turn everything up; use alsamixer if you use
ALSA; OSS mixers like aumix did not make all controls available for my
soundcard (an SB Audigy).
For the SB Live, it's basically the same thing as for the built-in
card: is the hardware enabled, are the drivers there, is the mixer set
correctly?
Oh, and is the cable plugged into the right plug?
| Quote: | I
can't help wondering what distributions should work with my configuration,
i.e. AMD64, nVidia GForce FX5200, Soundblaster Live soundcard and whether
Fedora ever could have been got to work.
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Well, I have Fedora Core 1 working with an AMD64, various graphics
cards (among them a Gforce 4200), and an SB Audigy.
- anton
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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |
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Bonj
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Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Posts: 20
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:52 pm Post subject:
Re: Soundblaster live on FC3 AMD64
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| Quote: | What does lspci say?
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00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0204
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 1204
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 2204
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3204
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4204
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 7204
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800 South]
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South]
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev
7
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
(rev a1)
not sure why this is, as it's not an Audigy it's a Soundblaster Live.
| Quote: | What does lsmod say?
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Module Size Used by
snd_emu10k1 91940 0
snd_rawmidi 21920 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm 95244 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_timer 22792 1 snd_pcm
snd_seq_device 7692 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 68228 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_page_alloc 10760 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4096 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 8456 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_mixer_oss 19200 0
snd 50024 9
snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore 8480 1 snd
parport_pc 25536 1
lp 11512 0
parport 40460 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 15360 0
ds 16904 0
yenta_socket 19968 0
pcmcia_core 57104 2 ds,yenta_socket
sunrpc 137952 1
8139too 23040 0
via_rhine 20616 0
mii 4736 2 8139too,via_rhine
floppy 61808 0
sg 37560 0
scsi_mod 121248 1 sg
dm_mod 43040 0
uhci_hcd 31280 0
ehci_hcd 30088 0
button 6056 0
battery 8976 0
asus_acpi 11936 0
ac 4496 0
ipv6 249728 8
ext3 131472 2
jbd 54448 1 ext3
Do you see the AC97 driver
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No, but it does work, only not after I install the nVidia driver.
I don't think it's recognising the SBLive, as when I go to System tools >
soundcard detection, (with the AC97 audio) I get no soundcards, and when the
AC97 is enabled, I only get that - only it doesn't work after the nVidia
driver install.
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Maybe you just got the output muted for some unrelated reason. Play
around with the mixer and turn everything up; use alsamixer if you use
ALSA; OSS mixers like aumix did not make all controls available for my
soundcard (an SB Audigy).
For the SB Live, it's basically the same thing as for the built-in
card: is the hardware enabled, are the drivers there, is the mixer set
correctly?
Oh, and is the cable plugged into the right plug?
I
can't help wondering what distributions should work with my configuration,
i.e. AMD64, nVidia GForce FX5200, Soundblaster Live soundcard and whether
Fedora ever could have been got to work.
Well, I have Fedora Core 1 working with an AMD64, various graphics
cards (among them a Gforce 4200), and an SB Audigy.
- anton
--
M. Anton Ertl Some things have to be seen to be
believed
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be
seen
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |
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Karloman
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject:
Re: Soundblaster live on FC3 AMD64
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I had the same problem (but on Intel platform) with FC3. There was no
way of configuring my on-board soundcard (CMI Media), so I put an old
SBLive PCI card in my brand new PC. Initially I compiled the ALSA
drivers into the kernel . That didn't work. Then I switched to OSS
drivers and voila... it worked like a charm...
Cheers, Karlo.
Bonj wrote:
| Quote: | Hello
I have been trying to build linux on an AMD64 system for some time now. And
I now can't get the soundcard working, and I wonder if anybody has any tips.
My main beef was that I couldn't get ANY distribution to work with the
motherboard's on-board graphics chipset, a VIA K8M800 northbridge, after
searching on the internet I found umpteen blogs of problems with this
configuration so I was slightly put off. I did notice that when the
installer did its 'sound test' the sound card (onboard AC97 VIA K8T800
southbridge) worked.
I got a new nvidia gforce fx5200 graphics card in the hope that it would
solve the eternal 'no screens found / none have a usable configuration'
error, and it did, perfectly - no distributions had any problems running the
graphical installer, and started the X-server with no problems at all. The
animation was patchy as it was obviously running the graphics card off the
processor, but once the drivers were installed it was fine. However, this
rendered the sound card not working. However this required me setting the
'first init display' in bios to the AGP, which the nVidia is plugged into.
I thus assumed that this newfound lack of sound was because the motherboard
can either use *both* the onboard graphics and sound, or neither - and the
fact that I disabled one had meant that the other wouldn't work either, so I
went out and got a Soundblaster Live soundcard and plugged it into the PCI
slot. Logical assumption, or completely silly move? When I loaded FC2, it
listed my AC97 onboard sound card as 'configured' but it didn't work, and
the Soundblaster that I bought was recognized, but 'not configured'.
Now I searched on the internet for distributions that had the EMU10K1 module
which supports the soundblaster. Gentoo claimed to be one, but it has a
notoriously difficult 'manual' installer and while I'm enjoying doing it as
it's teaching me about what actually goes on in the installation process I
can't help wondering what distributions should work with my configuration,
i.e. AMD64, nVidia GForce FX5200, Soundblaster Live soundcard and whether
Fedora ever could have been got to work.
Anyone else have this configuration, any comments?
p.s. Although I'm increasingly liking linux I'm coming from a windows
background primarily and still on the steep part of the linux learning curve
so please explain what to you may seem obvious!
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Bonj
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Posts: 20
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject:
Re: Soundblaster live on FC3 AMD64
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I've got slightly further with it, I've downloaded and compiled and
installed the latest version of alsa driver from their ftp link on their
website, and the soundcard is now listed as an Audigy LS (despite the fact
that it is a Soundblaster Live 24bit)
in soundcard detection, but doesn't play sound. It lists the driver of this
to be 'snd-ca0106', not emu10k1.
Maybe this is the problem?
When I run alsamixer, it has got the title of the VIA soundcard (the one I
don't want to use ) at the top and no way of changing it.
"Anton Ertl" <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote in message
news:2005Feb5.204156@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at...
| Quote: | "Bonj" <a@b.com> writes:
I thus assumed that this newfound lack of sound was because the
motherboard
can either use *both* the onboard graphics and sound, or neither - and the
fact that I disabled one had meant that the other wouldn't work either, so
I
went out and got a Soundblaster Live soundcard and plugged it into the PCI
slot. Logical assumption, or completely silly move?
Rather the latter. I have yet to see a board where the on-board
components cannot be disabled independently (if they can be disabled).
What does lspci say? What does lsmod say? Do you see the AC97 driver
in the dmesg output?
Maybe you just got the output muted for some unrelated reason. Play
around with the mixer and turn everything up; use alsamixer if you use
ALSA; OSS mixers like aumix did not make all controls available for my
soundcard (an SB Audigy).
For the SB Live, it's basically the same thing as for the built-in
card: is the hardware enabled, are the drivers there, is the mixer set
correctly?
Oh, and is the cable plugged into the right plug?
I
can't help wondering what distributions should work with my configuration,
i.e. AMD64, nVidia GForce FX5200, Soundblaster Live soundcard and whether
Fedora ever could have been got to work.
Well, I have Fedora Core 1 working with an AMD64, various graphics
cards (among them a Gforce 4200), and an SB Audigy.
- anton
--
M. Anton Ertl Some things have to be seen to be
believed
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be
seen
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html |
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Bonj
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:58 pm Post subject:
Re: Soundblaster live on FC3 AMD64
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What were the steps you took to "switch to OSS drivers" ?
Tell me step by step... I don't really understand linux procedures yet.
Thanks
"Karloman" <REMOVE_ITkarloman@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:36muf3F54bqisU1@individual.net...
| Quote: | I had the same problem (but on Intel platform) with FC3. There was no way
of configuring my on-board soundcard (CMI Media), so I put an old SBLive
PCI card in my brand new PC. Initially I compiled the ALSA drivers into the
kernel . That didn't work. Then I switched to OSS drivers and voila... it
worked like a charm...
Cheers, Karlo.
Bonj wrote:
Hello
I have been trying to build linux on an AMD64 system for some time now.
And I now can't get the soundcard working, and I wonder if anybody has
any tips.
My main beef was that I couldn't get ANY distribution to work with the
motherboard's on-board graphics chipset, a VIA K8M800 northbridge, after
searching on the internet I found umpteen blogs of problems with this
configuration so I was slightly put off. I did notice that when the
installer did its 'sound test' the sound card (onboard AC97 VIA K8T800
southbridge) worked.
I got a new nvidia gforce fx5200 graphics card in the hope that it would
solve the eternal 'no screens found / none have a usable configuration'
error, and it did, perfectly - no distributions had any problems running
the graphical installer, and started the X-server with no problems at
all. The animation was patchy as it was obviously running the graphics
card off the processor, but once the drivers were installed it was fine.
However, this rendered the sound card not working. However this required
me setting the 'first init display' in bios to the AGP, which the nVidia
is plugged into.
I thus assumed that this newfound lack of sound was because the
motherboard can either use *both* the onboard graphics and sound, or
neither - and the fact that I disabled one had meant that the other
wouldn't work either, so I went out and got a Soundblaster Live soundcard
and plugged it into the PCI slot. Logical assumption, or completely silly
move? When I loaded FC2, it listed my AC97 onboard sound card as
'configured' but it didn't work, and the Soundblaster that I bought was
recognized, but 'not configured'.
Now I searched on the internet for distributions that had the EMU10K1
module which supports the soundblaster. Gentoo claimed to be one, but it
has a notoriously difficult 'manual' installer and while I'm enjoying
doing it as it's teaching me about what actually goes on in the
installation process I can't help wondering what distributions should
work with my configuration, i.e. AMD64, nVidia GForce FX5200,
Soundblaster Live soundcard and whether Fedora ever could have been got
to work.
Anyone else have this configuration, any comments?
p.s. Although I'm increasingly liking linux I'm coming from a windows
background primarily and still on the steep part of the linux learning
curve so please explain what to you may seem obvious! |
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Karloman
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Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:13 am Post subject:
Re: Soundblaster live on FC3 AMD64
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Now that's a tough job...  Welcome to Linux. I suggest you learn it all
by yourself, because situations like these occur quite often so you're
gonna need it. Just go to google and type something like compiling Linux
kernel and you'll have lot's of tutorials thrown out. And I also suggest
you to buy yourself a decent book about Linux. I recommend
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnredhatentlnx/index.html. It's a great
book if you're new to Linux and are using Fedora.
Karlo.
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 17:58:38 -0000, Bonj <a@b.com> wrote:
| Quote: | What were the steps you took to "switch to OSS drivers" ?
Tell me step by step... I don't really understand linux procedures yet.
Thanks
"Karloman" <REMOVE_ITkarloman@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:36muf3F54bqisU1@individual.net...
I had the same problem (but on Intel platform) with FC3. There was no
way
of configuring my on-board soundcard (CMI Media), so I put an old SBLive
PCI card in my brand new PC. Initially I compiled the ALSA drivers into
the
kernel . That didn't work. Then I switched to OSS drivers and voila...
it
worked like a charm...
Cheers, Karlo.
Bonj wrote:
Hello
I have been trying to build linux on an AMD64 system for some time now.
And I now can't get the soundcard working, and I wonder if anybody has
any tips.
My main beef was that I couldn't get ANY distribution to work with the
motherboard's on-board graphics chipset, a VIA K8M800 northbridge,
after
searching on the internet I found umpteen blogs of problems with this
configuration so I was slightly put off. I did notice that when the
installer did its 'sound test' the sound card (onboard AC97 VIA K8T800
southbridge) worked.
I got a new nvidia gforce fx5200 graphics card in the hope that it
would
solve the eternal 'no screens found / none have a usable configuration'
error, and it did, perfectly - no distributions had any problems
running
the graphical installer, and started the X-server with no problems at
all. The animation was patchy as it was obviously running the graphics
card off the processor, but once the drivers were installed it was
fine.
However, this rendered the sound card not working. However this
required
me setting the 'first init display' in bios to the AGP, which the
nVidia
is plugged into.
I thus assumed that this newfound lack of sound was because the
motherboard can either use *both* the onboard graphics and sound, or
neither - and the fact that I disabled one had meant that the other
wouldn't work either, so I went out and got a Soundblaster Live
soundcard
and plugged it into the PCI slot. Logical assumption, or completely
silly
move? When I loaded FC2, it listed my AC97 onboard sound card as
'configured' but it didn't work, and the Soundblaster that I bought was
recognized, but 'not configured'.
Now I searched on the internet for distributions that had the EMU10K1
module which supports the soundblaster. Gentoo claimed to be one, but
it
has a notoriously difficult 'manual' installer and while I'm enjoying
doing it as it's teaching me about what actually goes on in the
installation process I can't help wondering what distributions should
work with my configuration, i.e. AMD64, nVidia GForce FX5200,
Soundblaster Live soundcard and whether Fedora ever could have been got
to work.
Anyone else have this configuration, any comments?
p.s. Although I'm increasingly liking linux I'm coming from a windows
background primarily and still on the steep part of the linux learning
curve so please explain what to you may seem obvious!
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Anton Ertl
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:32 pm Post subject:
Re: Soundblaster live on FC3 AMD64
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"Bonj" <a@b.com> writes:
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What does lspci say?
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00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
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not sure why this is, as it's not an Audigy it's a Soundblaster Live.
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There may be little or no difference at the chipset level. Looks
good.
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What does lsmod say?
Module Size Used by
snd_emu10k1 91940 0
snd_rawmidi 21920 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm 95244 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_timer 22792 1 snd_pcm
snd_seq_device 7692 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 68228 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_page_alloc 10760 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4096 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 8456 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_mixer_oss 19200 0
snd 50024 9
snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore 8480 1 snd
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Looks good. Not sure about the exact details, though (I cannot
cokmpare it the the corresponding stuff at my home machine in the near
future).
| Quote: | Do you see the AC97 driver
in the dmesg output?
No, but it does work, only not after I install the nVidia driver.
I don't think it's recognising the SBLive, as when I go to System tools
soundcard detection, (with the AC97 audio) I get no soundcards, and when the
AC97 is enabled, I only get that - only it doesn't work after the nVidia
driver install.
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BTW, why do you install the Nvidia driver? Anything wrong with
deinstalling them and using the free nv driver with X?
- anton
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Anton Ertl
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject:
Re: Soundblaster live on FC3 AMD64
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"Bonj" <a@b.com> writes:
| Quote: | When I run alsamixer, it has got the title of the VIA soundcard (the one I
don't want to use ) at the top and no way of changing it.
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Have you tried the -c or -D options of alsamixer? You might also want
to disabkle the on-board sound in the BIOS.
- anton
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Bonj
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Posts: 20
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 5:11 pm Post subject:
Re: Soundblaster live on FC3 AMD64
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| Quote: | BTW, why do you install the Nvidia driver? Anything wrong with
deinstalling them and using the free nv driver with X?
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Because the animation is so much better - when I play tux racer without the
nvidia driver installed, it works, but refreshes about every 0.5 - 1.0
seconds, very patchy. With the nVidia driver installed, it's perfect
animation.
I've got the soundcard working now, but it's crackly! The frustrating thing
is I think this is because I've got the alsa mixer levels set incorrectly or
I'm using analogue incorrectly or something but no way of knowing for sure!
Enter these forums...
I might try going for disabling the VIA onboard sound as I haven't done that
since the SBLive24 started working and see what that does.
Anyway cheers for the responses
(Hope this gets through, it might take a while)
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