Re: [Sheflug] Soundblaster Live! not working

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

Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 05:30:47PM +0100, matt fairtlough wrote:
> > which I assume is the SBL) are all sharing IRQ 10.  So that could be the
> > problem, I guess.
> 
> Sharing IRQs is a feature last time I checked :)

Yes, so it seems.  But a feature Linux likes to complain about...

I wonder if it's alsa giving a problem.  How do I turn it off? (God I am
naive)  Could there be a gnome/alsa incompatibility?  Two of the CD
players crash when I try to set them up: the one that doesn't crash (or
make any sound either) is the Gnome CD player which works very reliably
with Gentus.  or did once.  see below.
 
> > sorry about the rambling.  Perhaps someone can put me out of my misery
> > if I am way off target.
> 
> Go into Gentus, check which module it's using - looks to me like the emu10k1
> driver doesn't like your card. Could be that you need a different driver.
> See if you can get some info from the card (cat /proc/pci, look for a sound
> card :) to see which chipset it's using - might be an odd soundblaster.
> Bottom line - if it works in Gentus, it's a software problem.

I was perhaps economical with the truth there: it worked, up to a point,
but system sounds and Xmms would then suddenly stop working until I
restarted X.  The CD player didn't stop though.  

Until now that is.  I can play CD's through the headphone jack, so the
drive itself hasn't been damaged, but now the behaviour under Gentus is
very similar: system sounds, Xmms plays, no CD from the sound card.

I just managed to get Xmms to play an mp3 file under SuSE.

> [BTW - your print-out looked okay - are you sure that you have the sound on
> your mixer turned up? 

Oh, heavens, here I go again.  I have this wierd sense of having been
here before.  I do get _some_ sound (Xmms, some system sounds) now I
turned the mixer volume up.

> I would expect the second modprobe to fail if the
> module was already loaded, because you're trying to find a second audio
> card, which you don't have. Play a CD and make sure the volume on the
> mixer's turned up a notch :) ]

tried various mixers and Gnome CD player with a CD: no joy there.  But I
do get the message:

Jul  8 23:31:39 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-slot-1
Jul  8 23:31:39 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-service-1-0

better pack it in for the night. 

thanks,

Matt.
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