Re: sound blaster card

[steef <steefvanduin@zonnet.nl>]

michael wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 11:36 +0100, michael wrote:
>   
> > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 01:36 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >     
> > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:24:03AM +0100, michael wrote:
> > >       
> > > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 14:39 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > >         
> > > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:30:56PM +0100, michael wrote:
> > > > >           
> > > > > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 13:05 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > > > >             
> > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:48:19PM +0100, michael wrote:
> > > > > > >               
> > > > > > > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 05:37 -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> > > > > > > >                 
> > > > > > > > > Folks
> > > > > > > > > I've a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24bit soundcard which I've got to
> > > > > > > > > work in another Debian 2.6 box but am having problems with another box,
> > > > > > > > > so all help welcome. Full details are below, but essentially lspci sees
> > > > > > > > > the card but alsaconf gives firstly:
> > > > > > > > > "No supported PnP or PCI card found.              ???
> > > > > > > > >                   
> > > > > > > please provide us with relevant output of lspci -vv
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > also, provide the output of 
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > lsmod | grep snd
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >               
> > > > > > As requested:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > michael@ratty:~$ sudo lspci -vv;lsmod |grep snd
> > > > > > Password:
> > > > > > {snip}
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 0000:04:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
> > > > > >         Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1006
> > > > > >             
> > > > > ----------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > >
> > > > > it appears the kernel is not recognising your card. do you know which
> > > > > module it requires? you could manually insert the module (modprobe)
> > > > > and then try alsaconf again. If that worked, you'd have to then find
> > > > > out WHY the kernel wasn't identifying the card properly, or why
> > > > > themodule wasn'tbeing inserted (blacklisted perhaps? or maybe not
> > > > > selected in the kernel config). 
> > > > >
> > > > > hth
> > > > >           
> > > > with the other machines I used, alsaconf inserted the module. also note
> > > > that virtually all my devices are unknown (so nothing should work?!):
> > > >         
> > > huh. look at that. mine too... well not so many as you, but still. 
> > >
> > > regardless, do you know which module? and can you manually insert it to
> > > see what happens? 
> > >
> > >       
> > I'm pretty sure it wants the ca0106 but I can't find it 
> > (NB this box is 'stable' dist, the other which worked was 'unstable')
> > However am confused as to why we don't need to discover why alsaconf
> > isn't finding card before we worry about modules?
> >     
>
> mmm.. maybe the answer is staring me in the face: unstable has a later
> version of ALSA than stable...
>
> so how would I go about installing *just* ALSA from unstable?
>
>
>   
hi,

install the newest alsa-drivers into your kernel from the alsa website.

install the alsa-libs and alsa-utilities as well.

that should work if you do alsaconf as #.

look before for the support of your sound card on their site as well,

hope this helps.

steef