my on-board sound card is faulty. i am using creative EV 1938 NY 1820 sound card.
i am a newbie to linux and don't know how to install the driver for this card.
i can't hear any sounds without it..
pl help!!

Spell out your words.

And if you'd like some help, you need to provide some information. Like what version/distro of Linux you're using. Has this sound card EVER worked? What have you tried?

i am using fedora 10.
the sound card that i am using is CREATIVE EV 1938 NY 1820 12LS 0045.
the card is working fine in xp & vista( i have daul boot machine)
i have done the following:-
1. initially the sound or video were not playing at all...
so i downloaded and installed m player....
now video plays ( without sound) and the audio tracks also are seen being played by the player( without sound).
2. i tried to google for rpm of the above driver but couldn't find any thing.

there is no sound at all...
what to do?

Getting the sound to work is not dependent on the distribution. All distributions uses ALSA. The problem will be what module (driver) will be compatible for your sound card. Also the sound card information that you provided is hard to work on because it goes no where.

I suggest post the information that the following command outputs.

/usr/sbin/lspci -vv

or

/sbin/lspci -vv

I agree mostly... Sometimes I've seen KDE/kmixer mute channels, but the same hardware works under Gnome, just because it's not muted. But ALSA is the de-facto standard these days..

On that note...try going to a prompt, and typing in "alsamixer". Make sure there aren't any channels marked with an "MM" at the bottom. If so, navigate over to it, and hit the "M" key on your keyboard, and it should go to an "OO". Adjust the volume, hit escape to exit, and see if you've got sound now.

hi,
as you had suggested i used the command and got the following( i cannot make a head or tail out of it....all seems greek to me...what do i do??):-


[baltej@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci -vv
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device d605
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Intel Desktop Board D945GCCR
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Region 1: I/O ports at 20e0 [size=8]
Region 2: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 3: Memory at d0180000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: intelfb

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device d605
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
Region 0: Memory at d01c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device d605
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
Region 4: I/O ports at 2080 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device d605
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19
Region 4: I/O ports at 2060 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device d605
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18
Region 4: I/O ports at 2040 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device d605
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 16
Region 4: I/O ports at 2020 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device d605
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
Region 0: Memory at d01c4000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff
Memory behind bridge: d0000000-d00fffff
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR+
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device d605
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: intel-rng, iTCO_wdt

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device d605
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
Region 0: I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
Region 1: I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
Region 2: I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
Region 3: I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
Region 4: I/O ports at 20b0 [size=16]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device d605
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19
Region 0: I/O ports at 20c8 [size=8]
Region 1: I/O ports at 20ec [size=4]
Region 2: I/O ports at 20c0 [size=8]
Region 3: I/O ports at 20e8 [size=4]
Region 4: I/O ports at 20a0 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device d605
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19
Region 4: I/O ports at 2000 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

04:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs Ectiva EV1938
Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 5938
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort+ <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32 (3000ns min, 32000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: I/O ports at 1040 [size=64]
Region 1: I/O ports at 1080 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ENS1371
Kernel modules: snd-ens1371

04:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device d605
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Region 1: I/O ports at 1000 [size=64]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: e100
Kernel modules: e100[/COLOR]

hi again,
i tried alsamixer and checked that master is marked 00
i adjusted the volume to highest ..
but still no sound...
i also used /sbin/lspci -vv but what it generates is all unknown things to me!!
i expect ur help and patience!!

Don't just check the master channel...check ALL the channels.

You have two sound cards and they both have their modules (drivers) loaded. I suggest at the console type the following for the first sound card.

alsamixer -V all -c 0

For the second sound card, type the following.

alsamixer -V all -c 1

Which sound card is the first one depends which sound card is loaded first upon boot up. The first sound card will always be the default. You can try to unload both the snd-hda-intel and snd-ens1371. Then load snd-ens1371 and use alsamixer to change the mixer settings. If it outputs sound, then you need to add the following line to either /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modules.d/[file].

# 1st sound card
options snd-ens1371 index=0

# 2nd sound card
options snd-hda-intel index=1

If your distribution uses /etc/modules.d to store custom /etc/modules.conf, you will have to run a utility that will update /etc/modules.conf with the new additions.


The option "-V all" in alsamixer lists every setting in the mixer for the sound card instead of displaying the defaults. It helps for setting it up for playback and recording.

hi again!!
thank you so much for your assistance throughout the sound card prob...
i regret to say that i managed to crash my system meanwhile { without having solved sound card trouble!}.
so now i have to install linux all over again!!
i request ur suggestion as to which platform should i load..
1. fedora 10
2. ubuntu
3. suse 11.1
OR
4. red hat

please keep in mind that i am newbei to linux...

hi again!!
thank you so much for your assistance throughout the sound card prob...
i regret to say that i managed to crash my system meanwhile { without having solved sound card trouble!}.
so now i have to install linux all over again!!
i request ur suggestion as to which platform should i load..
1. fedora 10
2. ubuntu
3. suse 11.1
OR
4. red hat

please consider the fact that i am newbei to linux...

someone suggested that i must install linux onto an external drive because there r issues when windows & linux r loaded on same hard disk { even if in different logical drives}...is it really so?

if u r a newbie,u can use Ubuntu...u can install windows and linux on the same hard disk with no probs...

hi,
ubuntu gives us three options...
1. over windows
2. separate drive
3. overwrite linux drive
......what about 1st option??
pl suggest

but

alsamixer comd gives only master channel
how to check other channels?
noo sound still
...

thank you for the reply.
but i do not know how to unload these sound cards.
i tried to disable audio from bios... doest help!
pl help.