hello thur

when i run alsamixer, in the corner i see the onboard sound on my motherboard

buti have a SB Audigy 2 sound card

how can i get it to detect my card rather than the one on the mobo?

should i get the latest alsa drivers?

thanks for the help

oh also here is the output of lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2578 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2579 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24d2 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24d4 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24d7 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24de (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24dd (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24d0 (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24db (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24d3 (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24d5 (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 ND [Radeon 9700]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 [Radeon 9700 Pro] (Secondary)
02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3373 (rev 02)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 1700 (rev 12)
02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
02:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04)
02:0a.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
02:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 06)

hrm...

i upgraded to the latest alsa driver but it still doesnt work

any suggestions?

what happens when you modprobe emu10k1

when i run that i get:

FATAL: Module emu10k1 not found.

do i have to download it and install it?

Have you disabled onboard sound in th bios?

yeah onboard sound is turned off

try running


alsaconf

hrm... strange

it detects Sound Blaster1.0/2.0 when it looks for legacy pci cards but...

after i hit ok when it says

"SHall i try all possible DMA and IRQ combinations?...."

it says:

RESULT:

No legacy cards found

ugh im so confused

i neeed moar help! lol