Re: [Sheflug] Soundblaster Live! not working

[matt fairtlough <nospam [at] fairtlough.net>]

Michael Williams wrote:
> 
> 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?!

Gentus linux, kernel version 2.2.15-3.0 . horrid.

> > 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. 

results below.

> Quick tests you could try are making sure plug and
> play os is set to "no" in the BIOS 

I did that, but it made no difference whatsoever.

> and physically moving the SBLive
> around to other PCI slots or taking other cards out.

Could do that, I suppose.  Thing is, I need the other cards!  e.g. the
modem for email...
Are there just too few interrupts, or what?  I've never got this one.

root@pc-62-31-17-175-sh:/home/matt > more /proc/interrupts 
           CPU0       
  0:    1043972          XT-PIC  timer
  1:      11070          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  4:     146339          XT-PIC  serial
  8:          2          XT-PIC  rtc
 10:      48187          XT-PIC  eth0, usb-uhci, usb-uhci, EMU10K1
 11:      42559          XT-PIC  ide2
 14:          4          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:         18          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0 
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

Am I using "cascade" whatever that is?  I've no idea, I'm afraid.

thanks for your help,

Matt.

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