Ever since installing Mandrake 9.1, I've lost use of my soundcard. The
sound PCI board is a Creative Labs SB Live! using the EMU10k1 driver.
I'm trying to troubleshoot something that I don't know much about here.
This is as far as I've got:
I don't know much about the difference between the ALSA sound system and
the OSS sound system. I've tried running XMMS (OSS). It is happy
playing an MP3 file if I set the output plugin to the OSS driver (not to
"alternate /dev/dsp"). However when XMMS is playing an audio file,
there is still NO SOUND from the speakers.
When I set the output plugin to "/dev/sound/dsp" or "/dev/dsp" then XMMS
complains about the sound device not being available.
I've learnt about the lspci util, which I've subsequently installed.
Running it shows the soundcard sitting there.
However running "aplay -l" shows no soundcard available!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Downloads]# lspci
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev
07)
00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port
(rev 07)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] raheesom]$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:190: no soundcards found...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] raheesom]$ pcimodules
aic7xxx
ne2k-pci
emu10k1-gp
snd-emu10k1
emu10k1
audigy
usb-uhci
uhci
The pcimodules command shows a whole 4 sound drivers loaded. I don't
know whether all of those are needed.
One thing I haven't done is to swap out the sound card, but I suspect
that if it's showing up under lspci that it should be working OK. Is
that right?
This is turning into a nightmare as far as software config is
concerned. I'm learning why Linux is not seen as an easy option for
multimedia. I'm surprised MDK 9.1 is giving me this problem because
it's been brilliant as far as all other desktop issues are concerned!
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Regards
Rupert Heesom
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