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Hi,
I am trying to get ALSA to work with my Creative
Soundblaster 16 ISAPnP on my Gentoo Linux 2.4.18 system, and have serious
problems with it.
The sound howto on the Gentoo site is outdated, it
talks about a /etc/init.d/alsa script being installed, which apparently has been
renamed to alsasound.
The portage system will automatically download the
0.9 development release of ALSA, well so be it. Either with isapnp included or
not(in which case I use ISAPnPtools), the snd-sb16 will not work.
After some trying I figured I could get the card to
kinda operate by using 'modprobe snd-sbawe', which would load a load of other
modules like snd-sb-common among others.
In that case, after unmuting with amixer I can get
some sound out of it.
But after a reboot all channels will be muted
again, and in no way I can reload the last state, because it does not save
it.
The alsasound script is supposed to do this, but
won't. Alsasound start says that the ALSA drivers are already running, and
alsasound stop says the drivers are not loaded...
This means a whole lot of hassle to get it
working.
So I downloaded the stable release of alsa-driver,
0.5.12a and installed that one. This one does not seem to install a
startup/shutdown script at all, but with this release, the modprobe
snd-card-sb16(not called snd-sb16 in this release apparently) does load. But,
the stable release of alsa-utils, which includes the amixer, depends on the
0.9-rc1-rc5 alsa-driver to be installed. If I install it anyway, the amixer
replies the ALSA drivers are not loaded.
My configuration of the soundcard:
IRQ=5
IO=0x220
DMA8=1
DMA16=5
Do you know what/if I am doing (something) wrong?
Do you know how to solve it, download which release, what drivers, what utils,
what lib?
Thanks,
Egbert
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