Hello list, I have been fighting this one for a long time, hope someone out there can show me what I am doing wrong.
I have a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Platinum running on SuSE 7.3 (which ships with Alsa 0.5.11). Using the stock kernel (2.4.10) with the distribution, my sound behavior was erratic. KDE sounds worked, DVD worked with ogle, TV Card did not work, CD audio only worked if I used alsaplayer, gameport joystick did not work (modprobe ns558 init_module: No such device). None of the live drive features worked, though I could get sound through the live drive headphone jack for whatever I could also get on the speakers. In an attempt to correct this, I compiled kernel 2.4.16 (with the same config as the SuSE distro kernel, nearly everything is a module) and installed alsa 0.9.9 beta 10 (driver, lib, utils, oss). Used ./configure --with-debug=full --with-oss=yes --with-seq=yes --with-cards=emu10k1. No problems with the installation process. No change. I have used alsamixer to make sure things were not muted. Actually, none of the mixers seem to do anything anyway. I've been browing the alsa-user archives, but have not found anything that seems to address this... Some relevant info: /etc/modules.conf alias sound off alias midi off alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_extin=0x3fc3 snd_extout=0x1fff snd_index=0 modprobe -c | grep snd alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_extin=0x3fc3 snd_extout=0x1fff snd_index=0 modprobe -c | grep sound path[sound]=/lib/modules/sound alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound off alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss cat /proc/asound/sndstat Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.9.0beta10 emulation code) Kernel: Linux linux 2.4.16-4GB #2 Tue Dec 4 17:19:23 CST 2001 i686 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation Card config: Sound Blaster Live! at 0x14a0, irq 10 Audio devices: 0: EMU10K1 (DUPLEX) Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Midi devices: 0: EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART) Timers: 7: system timer Mixers: 0: mixer00 amixer get Master Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 20 [65%] [on] Front Right: Playback 20 [65%] [on] No strange messages in /var/log/messages relating to sound, everything seems to be loading fine. My one thought is that it could be because I am connected to the speakers using the digital out on the card instead of the analog? This box dual boots Windows, sound works great on Windows, though I would love to remove that partition once I have this problem figured out. Also, should I remove the SuSE version of alsa? I tried this, but there were many dependancy warnings, so I skipped it. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Let me know if you need any additional information. Please CC if you reply... Thank you for your time, Josh Trutwin _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
