Re: ca0106

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

steef wrote:
> greetings to you all!
>
>
> bought very cheap a creative audigy sound-card: chip(set) *ca0106*. as a 
> sarge-user i discovered  debian_alsa under kernel 2.6.8-2-k7 doesnot 
> have this driver.
>
> so i downloaded, compiled and installed alsa-lib, version 1.0.11rc2, and 
> the appropriate alsa-utils and tools.
>
> so far so good: the sound_output is way better than the of the AC97-codec.
>
> *but* when i try to record sound (speech) with sound-recorder i cannot 
> get sound out of the playback of the produced *.wav-files 
> (homne/steef/wav, /home/steef/wav_1) with sound-recorder. in alsamixer i 
> have correctly put on the IEC958_knob and the mic_input as well as 
> *capture*.
>
> i know this could be a problem of a beta-driver or something like that 
> and i gonna put this question/problem too on the alsa-list. 
> *but....maybe some of you can help me out??? and tell me what i did 
> possibly wrong*

Steef,

What model number shows on the top of the front side of the card?
Mine shows "model SB0410".

My kernel is 2.6.15-ck1 and it *does* have ca0106.

I run Sarge and have installed:

ii  alsa-base                       1.0.8-7                         ALSA 
driver configuration files
ii  alsa-utils                      1.0.8-4                         ALSA 
utilities
ii  libasound2                      1.0.8-3                         ALSA 
library


Last time I tried the sound was terrible. But that was not with this 
kernel. I have never tried getting the latest alsa-lib. I do not know to 
what alsa-lib level this kernel refers. So I could try what you are 
trying, provided I can get sound out of the card.

H