Hi Folks. Sounds are working ok with Alsa 1.08 apart from a slight problem with loading sound fonts onto my Audigy2 soundblaster card with emu10k1 driver. I've already had to add one module to /etc/modules, the snd-usb-audio, to get the usb midi keyboard working, so I think this may be another missing module problem, but I'm not sure which one. I run sfxload CT4MGM.SF2 to load the soundfont but get a reply on the CLI "No AWE synth device is found" . Anybody got any idea which module might be missing, or some idea on how to fix this? Nigel. aka farpoint.

Kernel: 2.4.27-2-386
Alsa version: 1.08
Distro: Debian 3.0r2 upgraded to testing from testing repository
KDE 3.3
No problems with other distros on same machine. FC1,FC2,Slackware 10.0, etc. Soundfonts load ok.

Do you have the synth device loaded if not then modprobe snd_emu10k1_synth and it should work.

Hi Stephen. Thanks for your continued help. Modprobe couldn't find the snd-emu10k1-synth module. Doh. So I had a root around in the hotplug blacklist, and Bingo! awe_wave was on the list by default for some reason. I commented it out. Rebooted, and ran sfxload, and the soundfont loaded ok. Didn't have to run modprobe for the synth module, it had obviously picked it up when the awe_wave driver was actuated. Thanks again. Nigel aka farpoint.