problems installing sound blaster live 5.1
 

hi ,
i'm using a soundblaster live card ( 5.1 )
and... well it does not work at all ... i tried hard drake... which says it's working fine... but i do not hear a sound...
so can anybody tell me how to configure that card?
thanx,

RaZoD

Have you opened up a mixer, and checked all the levels are reasonably high?
Have you disabled plug'n'play in your bios?
Have you tried the command lsmod as root? This should show you which modules are running. Post the output here.

hey ...
i do not know what you mean whith have you opend up a mixer and checked all the levels are reasonably high
and i have disabled plug'n'play in my bios
and i did lsmod in a terminal as root...
but i can not paste the results...
because that other comp with mandrake doesn't have internet ...
i need to install that one.... because i have a lan on board ( mainboard ) and well... it gives problems...

ah i got online by switching network card
the results of lsmod is :
Module Size Used by Not tainted
parport_pc 21672 1 (autoclean)
lp 6720 0 (autoclean)
parport 23936 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
sd_mod 11788 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-midi 3680 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-emu10k1-synth 4220 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-emux-synth 25532 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1-synth]
snd-seq-midi-emul 4880 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]
snd-seq-virmidi 2888 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]
snd-seq-oss 26176 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 3208 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 33264 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-emu10k1 56592 0 [snd-emu10k1-synth]
snd-util-mem 1280 0 [snd-emux-synth snd-emu10k1]
snd-rawmidi 12864 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1-synth snd-emux-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd-hwdep 3840 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-pcm-oss 36932 1
snd-mixer-oss 9016 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-via8233 5772 1
snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-via8233]
snd-pcm 55808 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss snd-via8233]
snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd 24804 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-emu10k1 snd-util-mem snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-hwdep snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via8233 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer]
soundcore 3780 0 [snd]
nfsd 66576 8 (autoclean)
lockd 46480 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 60188 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
af_packet 13000 0 (autoclean)
8139too 14472 0 (autoclean)
mii 1152 0 (autoclean) [8139too]
nls_iso8859-1 2844 1 (autoclean)
ntfs 72908 1 (autoclean)
supermount 14340 3 (autoclean)
ide-cd 28712 0
cdrom 26848 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi 8212 0
scsi_mod 90372 3 [sd_mod sr_mod ide-scsi]
ehci-hcd 14472 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused)
usbcore 58304 1 [ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
rtc 6560 0 (autoclean)
ext3 74004 1
jbd 38452 1 [ext3]

It looks like you have onboard sound - Via 8233. Go into your bios and disable it. You might need to change a jumper setting on the board instead.

i already disablet it
plug n play ---> no

because in windows it doesn't detect that one at all... only linux gives the problems

Have a look in /etc/modules.conf
You should find a couple of lines like -
above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1

They are for your SBlive!
Do you have any other lines that relate to any other sound or Via 8233? If so, try deleting them and seeing if that helps. It should stop your OS loading drivers for the other sound card.

You could also try looking in the mandrake control centre>hardware>soundcard to see if it has offered you the option of using the emu10k1 driver - Your soundcard "sounds" like a similar model to my one, and it offers me an "audigy" driver as well as the emu10k1 driver, but I had to run the sound config option to make sure it was using the emu10k1

regards

John

My computer has on-board sound disabled in the BIOS. Mandrake 9.1 still detects it and includes the driver, along with the SB Live 5.1 driver (snd-cmipci & snd-emu10k1). This doesn't seem to bother the sound system: it still works OK.

If your OS is Mandrake 9.1, look here for a possible fix:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=muted+on+boot

Even if you're not using Mandrake 9.1, your problem may be just that the sound is muted. Look in your distribution for a mixer application. It will open a window with sound sliders, just like the Volume Control applet in Windows, the one you get by double-clicking on the speaker icon in the system tray. Once you have a mixer window open, make sure the sliders are towards the top, and look for a 'mute' setting that you can turn off. It's for this sort of reason that it's always a good idea to post what version of Linux you're running; it helps the helpers.

I just wanted to say thanks to LinuxQuestions and Bigjohn for the info about SBlive souncard. I could not get my SBlive soundcard to work and could not figure out why, after reading bigjohns post, I went to Mandrake Control Center and found that my new SBlive card was using my old onboard sound drivers, now i have Sound!! Thanks :-)

when run harddrake 2 version 1.1.8
i see 2 sound cards the vt8233 [ac97 audio controller]
if i click on run config tool i see it's using the driver snd-emu10k1
i can't disable this device wile i disablet it in the bios and i cant seem to find a place to disable this device in mandrake it self
when i click on run config tool at SB LIVE!(audio) it also runs under snd-emu10k1

and when i typ /etc/modules.conf under my user or under root it says premission denied

and i looked at that other topic and my sound was already on and not muted
i have mandrake on 4 other computers that didnt gave any problems.... the sound all works on the other computers...
but it gives problems
i noticed that my boxes gave a bit of a ticking sound when i switched with the things on kmix so i think it does work only isn't used as the default driver
i just tried switching the cable to my onboard sound system... and... well if i play a sond it works with out problem...
so i need to find a way to set the default driver or delete the other one

Just setting Plug n Play to No in the BIOS does not disable on-board sound; all it does is make the BIOS scan the motherboard for devices and their IRQs, rather than leaving it up to the OS. To disable the on-board sound, look for 'PCI Configuration', which could be under 'Advanced' or something similar. My BIOS has an 'On-board PCI Devices Control' item under that heading. Here you need to set on-board sound to 'Disabled'.

if i'm right ATA = the sound card disablet it
but still mandrake detects it..
and my soundblaster live still doesn't work

Did you go into the BIOS and disable on-board sound? If not, that could be the source of confliction.

there doesn't say any thing like "on board sound"
only onboard lan
and onboard ATA
so i think the ATA = the sound card
and i disabled that one