Re: [Sheflug] Soundblaster Live! not working

[Michael Williams <nospam [at] st-annes.oxford.ac.uk>]

matt fairtlough wrote:
> 
> Odd one this.  One my old system, this works just fine.  But under
> SuSE7.2, not a peep (nor are there any warning messages I can see).  So
> it isn't the hardware itself or how it is connected up: I checked and
> haven't altered anything since.

What was the old system?!

> I gather that the driver to use is emu10k1.  So I tried (not really
> knowing what modprobe does or what it can break):
> 
> root [at] pc-62-31-17-175-sh:/home/matt > modprobe emu10k1
> /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o:
> init_module: No such device
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
> including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: insmod
> emu10k1 failed
> root [at] pc-62-31-17-175-sh:/home/matt >

What this means is an attempt to establish the driver and link it to the
hardware has failed (which it will presumably also have done during boot
up - issue dmesg to check. The most likely cause of this on a fresh
install is, as you rightly suspect, a hardware problem.
 
> So what is the problem?  Well, it could be that the sound card is
> sharing an IRQ with something else (could it?).
> 
> now how do I find out which devices these are, and if there is a clash,
> I know I have to alter the BIOS settings but I've never understood how
> to manage with apparently too few IRQ numbers.

Take a look at the contents of /proc/interrupts to see how Linux has
allocated the IRQs. Quick tests you could try are making sure plug and
play os is set to "no" in the BIOS and physically moving the SBLive
around to other PCI slots or taking other cards out.

-- 
Michael
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