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I installed Etch and I have no sound. I have checked to make sure that the user is in the audio group. I have installed gnome-audio and I get sound using Fedora 9 Live. I used alsaconf to select the correct sound card and alsamixer to unmute and turn up the different channels. Thanks for the help.
I'm using the SB Audigy. The AC'97 is on onboard chipset.
lspci:
Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 755 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 36)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] RAID bus controller 180 SATA/PATA [SiS] (rev 01)
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15)
You didn't actually have to post the modules from Debian. My suggestion was for you to compare the lists. Nevertheless they both appear to be the same. That suggests that it may be Alsa or something else in the sound system.
When you ran alsamixer did you move the volume control up to maximum for all of the channels?
Have you tried putting the speakers into the connectors for the on board audio? Maybe they are working in Debian.
I would remove the Audigy board and use the on board audio. In fact I just recently pulled out the last Audigy board in use on my systems. I think that the on board audio is as good or better than the Audigy, but I don't play games or anything special with the audio. If I wanted to use the Audigy then I would run the motherboard BIOS setup utility and disable the on board audio.
Last edited by stress_junkie; 06-30-2008 at 07:26 PM.
I plugged into the onboard sound as suggested and it works! I installed the Audigy because I had compatibility issues with another distro. I can't believe it was that simple. Thanks for the help!
I'm confused. You said you were trying to get the Audigy running, but in the lsmod feedback you have posted, I am not seeing the snd_emu10k1 driver in there anywhere, but I can see the Intel driver and such. Did you disable the on-board audio before trying to get the Audigy running?
I did not disable the card like I should have. I wasn't worried about the emu_10k1 module because I have read that I need the ca0106 module, unless I missed something. I didn't realize that the on board sound worked out of the box with Etch. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle. I do not require the Audigy. It was purchased because I had sound compatibility issues with another distro.
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