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Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?



michael wrote:

michael wrote:

robin wrote:

michael wrote:

I've looked but can't find anything that definitely explains this, so...

I have a new Creative SoundBlaster Live! 24 bit sound card in my machine (dual Xeon box). The card works - heard it when booted WinXP. However, I can make no headway on getting sounds from it when I boot in to my Linux partition. I have done a 'apt-get install alsa' but that doesn't seem to have changed anything. All solutions are most welcome! And here's what I believe is sufficient information for people to answer this for me! TIA.

michael@ratty:~$ uname -a;sudo lsmod
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
floppy                 52184   0  (autoclean)
soundcore               4420   0  (autoclean)
input                   3872   0  (autoclean)
lp                      6916   0
parport                27944   0  [lp]
af_packet              14472   1  (autoclean)
uhci                   27100   0  (unused)
hw_random               2876   0  (unused)
i810_rng                2788   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd               18924   0  (unused)
usbcore                65804   1  [uhci ehci-hcd]
ide-scsi               10192   0
scsi_mod               97732   1  [ide-scsi]
e1000                  68844   1
ide-cd                 31328   0
cdrom                  30080   0  [ide-cd]
rtc                     7112   0  (autoclean)
ext3                   84748   7  (autoclean)
jbd                    46200   7  (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect               288   0  (autoclean) (unused)
piix                    9128   2  (autoclean)
ide-disk               16960   8  (autoclean)
ide-core 112184 8 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect piix ide-disk]
unix                   16784 221  (autoclean)
michael@ratty:~$


Hi

Try running alsaconf to set up the alsa sound modules.

Robin


That comes up with:
    No supported PnP or PCI card found.

I should also have said the console gets the message:
chael@ratty:/usr/src$ sudo alsaconf
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found


Not sure which module it is so check http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ soundcard matrix and then
e.g.

modprobe  snd-ens1371

replacing, if necessary, snd-ens1371 with the correct module.
If there are any error messages post them here.
Also which kernel version are you running as there was an issue with some 2.6 kernels with OSS grabbing the sound card before Alsa.

Robin



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