Re: [Sheflug] Soundblaster Live! not working

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

thanks Alex for your continued patience.  

Alex Hudson wrote:

> CD audio is routed through a different mixer than digital audio. (I know CDs
> are digital; but the audio that comes out is analogue..). You need to make
> sure the CD->Sound Card connection is good (connectors firmly in, etc.), 

I still have to check this: I suspect the connection is dodgy and I will
try moving the card if that doesn't seem to be the problem.  

> and
> that the CD audio mixer is turned up. 

I assume you meant mixer channel, and not that I'd have to run 2 mixer
programs...
 
> Look on the bright side: your sound
> config is mostly working!

I guess that is true, but it still doesn't "sound right"; some kind of
"static" that I'm sure wasn't there before we installed SuSE.  Perhaps
that also indicates a hardware problem?

> > 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
> 
> Hmm, no idea what they are, but could be something rotton in
> /etc/modules.conf.

So I looked in to that, but I don't really understand the documentation,
which appears to say that none of the remaining configuration lines
should be uncommented if the first three (i.e. 

alias char-major-14 off
alias sound off
alias midi off
)
are left in.  But the lines I uncommented out DO appear to be needed, if
the error messages above are to be believed.

Anyway, uncommenting the lines causes new errors and doesn't fix the
original ones:

Jul 10 11:07:08 linux insmod: insmod: a module named snd-mixer-oss
already exists
Jul 10 11:07:08 linux insmod: insmod: insmod sound-service-0-3 failed
Jul 10 11:32:57 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-slot-1
Jul 10 11:32:57 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-service-1-0

I don't understand how ALSA is working if it doesn't use kernel sound
drivers: what sound drivers is it using if they are not in the kernel?  

#*****************************************************************************
# If you want to use the kernel sound drivers instead of ALSA (SuSE's
default
# sound solution) please put comment signs in front of the following
# entries and remove any previous ALSA configuration from YaST2 or
alsaconf
# from the end of this file. Then choose one of the sample
configurations
# below. Uncomment all lines starting with 'alias', 'options', pre- or
post-
# install' within one configuration and modify the parameters according
to
# your needs (e.g. the resources chosen for this device in
/etc/isapnp.conf).
#*****************************************************************************


#*****************************************************************************
#    module : ad1816.o           AD1816 chip
#
<snip, snip>
#*****************************************************************************

#*****************************************************************************
# Example configs for ALSA
# You don't need to run isapnp with ALSA, it has full PnP support.
# See /usr/share/doc/packages/alsa/README.SuSE
#*****************************************************************************
#
# ALSA native device support and OSS emulation support. Uncomment these
# lines to enable ALSA:
#
alias char-major-14      soundcore	<-- all these lines were commented
out
alias char-major-116     snd		 -- in the original modules.conf 
alias sound-slot-0       snd-card-0	 --
alias sound-service-0-0  snd-mixer-oss	 --
alias sound-service-0-1  snd-seq-oss	 --
alias sound-service-0-3  snd-pcm-oss	 --
alias sound-service-0-8  snd-seq-oss	 --
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss	<--
#
# Uncomment this line too, you can setup your ALSA device permissions
here:
#
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0666
snd_device_gid=17 snd_device_uid=0			<-- and this one
#
# ALSA Card examples:
<snip>
#
#     Creative SB Live! (ALSA will find it with the kernel's PCI
support):
#
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1	<-- and these two
options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_index=0	<--
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