sound blaster live problems

sound blaster live problems

[Glenn at home]

I have a sound blaster live on my Debian system.
It uses the emu10k1 driver, and Alsa does not recognize it, but Debian does.
I discovered this by doing lspci
but when I do alsaconf, it does not find it.
Is there a command like apt-get that I can do to update/install the EMU10k1 
driver?
Thanks
Glenn 

Re: sound blaster live problems

[David Bruzos]

I don't understand:
Linux has very good support for the SB Live! soundcards.  I have never 
seen one that did not work.  Well, you know, there is a first time for 
everything.  Anyway, you might want to check if the emu10k driver is 
loaded.  Use the lsmod command to do this.  Try something like:

# lsmod >output.txt

Then, use your text editor of choice to read the file and see what it 
says.  I had you redirect the lsmod output to a file, because sometimes 
the list of modules does not fit on the screen.  Also, you could send 
the file to someone, so they can take a look at it.

I don't use Debian, so I don't know what to use to configure sound cards 
properly.  However, the sound blaster should be configured already, 
unless your install has some kind of bug.

Have you tried to play sound?  Try something like:

# play some-file.wav

If the command above gives an error, post it to the list...  Also, make 
sure your volumes are all the way up...  Do something like:

# aumix -v 100
# aumix -w 100

and try to play sound again.

Another thing:
I think that you have to be part of the "audio" group to play audio in  
Debian.  So check what groups you are part of.  Do:

# id

this should tell you what groups you are part of...


Hope this helps...

David Bruzos

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:15:36PM -0600, Glenn at home wrote:
> I have a sound blaster live on my Debian system.
> It uses the emu10k1 driver, and Alsa does not recognize it, but Debian does.
> I discovered this by doing lspci
> but when I do alsaconf, it does not find it.
> Is there a command like apt-get that I can do to update/install the EMU10k1 
> driver?
> Thanks
> Glenn 
> 
> 
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Re: sound blaster live problems

[Sean McMahon]

To add to this, you either use alse or use os sound modules. That assumes you
use the 2.4 kernel.  If you use 2.6, it's alsa only.
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From: "David Bruzos" <david@bruzos.org>
To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review
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Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: sound blaster live problems


> I don't understand:
> Linux has very good support for the SB Live! soundcards.  I have never
> seen one that did not work.  Well, you know, there is a first time for
> everything.  Anyway, you might want to check if the emu10k driver is
> loaded.  Use the lsmod command to do this.  Try something like:
>
> # lsmod >output.txt
>
> Then, use your text editor of choice to read the file and see what it
> says.  I had you redirect the lsmod output to a file, because sometimes
> the list of modules does not fit on the screen.  Also, you could send
> the file to someone, so they can take a look at it.
>
> I don't use Debian, so I don't know what to use to configure sound cards
> properly.  However, the sound blaster should be configured already,
> unless your install has some kind of bug.
>
> Have you tried to play sound?  Try something like:
>
> # play some-file.wav
>
> If the command above gives an error, post it to the list...  Also, make
> sure your volumes are all the way up...  Do something like:
>
> # aumix -v 100
> # aumix -w 100
>
> and try to play sound again.
>
> Another thing:
> I think that you have to be part of the "audio" group to play audio in
> Debian.  So check what groups you are part of.  Do:
>
> # id
>
> this should tell you what groups you are part of...
>
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> David Bruzos
>
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:15:36PM -0600, Glenn at home wrote:
> > I have a sound blaster live on my Debian system.
> > It uses the emu10k1 driver, and Alsa does not recognize it, but Debian does.
> > I discovered this by doing lspci
> > but when I do alsaconf, it does not find it.
> > Is there a command like apt-get that I can do to update/install the EMU10k1
> > driver?
> > Thanks
> > Glenn
> >
> >
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> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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Re: sound blaster live problems

[Gregory Nowak]

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No, that's not true. Oss is still available in the 2.6 kernels, though
it's deprecated, and isn't guaranteed to be there in the future. Check
your facts before you post a reply.

Greg


On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:11:23AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> To add to this, you either use alse or use os sound modules. That assumes you
> use the 2.4 kernel.  If you use 2.6, it's alsa only.

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