SB Live! 5.1 problems
I just added a Creative SB Live! 5.1 card to my machine -- my first
sound card -- and am having trouble with it. On the software side,
everything seems to run just perfectly, but it produces no sound.
Right off the top: I can use normal stero speakers even with a
surround-sound card, right? I bought the 5.1 card because I eventually
want to do surround-sound, but I assumed I could still use it to run
normal stereo speakers. Is this wrong? My walkman-style jack does fit
into its outputs (yes, I tried all of them).
Additional information: I added my user self to the audio group. lspci
finds the card:
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)
00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 08)]
dmseg shows that the kernel finds the card:
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.16, 15:45:02 Oct 13 2001
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0
emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 8 model 0x8064 found, IO at 0x9000-0x901f, IRQ 5
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7608 (SigmaTel STAC9708)
lsmod shows that it has loaded some appropriate drivers:
emu10k1 51584 1
ac97_codec 9088 0 [emu10k1]
sound 52428 0 [emu10k1]
soundcore 3556 7 [emu10k1 sound]
and, finally, sending a sound file to /dev/dsp or /dev/audio doesn't
produce any errors -- or any sound! Can anyone give me any hints?
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