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).
Should be able to do that.
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?
>David Wright <ichbin@shadlen.org> wrote:Dunno about this specific card, but all appears to be OK. If you get a mixer to appear and no obvious error messages, chances are you are in the "ball park".
Try logging in as root and see if you have sound there. If so, your problem is one of permissions for access to the "audio" group. Just add your users you want to have sound to the "audio" group and all will be well. You probaly want to add them to the "cdrom" group as well.
"Muting" is a condition on the Mixer panel where a channel is "muted" (temporarily silence the sound from a channel)... You can usually select this by clicking on a marked button or upon the device you are useing (cdrom, wav, midi, etc). Depending on the program you are using (KDE, GNOME, etc) the markings may or may NOT be obvious. Just try clicking on the volume sliders if it isn't obvious.
Cheers, -Don Spoon-