Fedora 12 sound for Ectiva EV1938

neelendhar · 12-11-2009, 10:40 PM

Hi all,

I have a problem in sound for PCI sound card details follows:

sound card: Creative Labs Ectiva EV1938
OS: Fedora 12

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# lspci |grep -i multimedia
01:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs Ectiva EV1938

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# lsmod |grep snd
snd_ens1371            19952  3 
gameport                9672  1 snd_ens1371
snd_rawmidi            19212  1 snd_ens1371
snd_ac97_codec         92136  1 snd_ens1371
ac97_bus                1424  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq                46960  0 
snd_seq_device          6232  2 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd_pcm                64932  2 snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              17992  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    50908  13 snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               5672  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7892  1 snd_pcm

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/asound/cards 
 0 [AudioPCI       ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
                      Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xdf00, irq 16

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/asound/devices 
  2:        : timer
  3:        : sequencer
  4: [ 0- 0]: raw midi
  5: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
  6: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
  7: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
  8: [ 0]   : control

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/asound/oss/devices 
  2: [0- 0]: raw midi
  9: [0- 0]: raw midi

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.20 emulation code)

Kernel: Linux localhost 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:25:57 EST 2009 i686

Config options: 0
Installed drivers: 
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config: 
Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xdf00, irq 16
Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices:
0: ES1371
Timers:
31: system timer
Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/asound.conf 
#
# Place your global alsa-lib configuration here...
#
@hooks [
	{
		func load
		files [
			"/etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf"
		]
		errors false
	}
]

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], device 0: ES1371/1 [ES1371 DAC2/ADC]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], device 1: ES1371/2 [ES1371 DAC1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# aplay -L
front:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0
    Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC
    Front speakers
rear:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0
    Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC1
    Rear speakers
surround40:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0
    Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
iec958:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0
    Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
default
    Default

Someone please assist me how to go further.

Thans,
Neel

aus9 · 01-08-2010, 04:25 AM

hi

since no-one has replied....do you have more than one sound device?

It looks like you have not disabled onboard sound which appears to be ac97?

if you agree pls fix that first and report back.

2) If you can not disable bios sound then add a blacklist entry to /etc/modprobe.d/ some blacklist filename....I do not know what your file is called but it should exist and add ac97 to the list please

zimon · 01-08-2010, 02:39 PM

You do not tell at all what kind of problems you have with audio?

Fedora 12 likes to use Pulseaudio rather than plain ALSA.

Do you have pulseaudio running in the system? For example
$ ps -w `pgrep pulse`
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
6939 ? S<sl 24:59 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

What does the program gnome-volume-control tell you about Hardware?
There in the Hardware-tab you can disable sound devices you do not want to use or test and also set for example do you want 2.0, 5.1 analog or digital sound and stuff.

Also padevchooser applet can be run in the Gnome Panel to see something what is happening with Pulseaudio.

I had just a problem with my digital sound, got it fixed, and it was because of this:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthr...=1#post1316140