My sound card will not work
 

My sound card will not work when i run Soundcard detection
I am running Fedora Core 2 on a brand new computer
here is some information about my computer
[root@localhost root]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
02:01.0 Communication controller: Conexant: Unknown device 2f20
02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X
02:02.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] Input device controller
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

Do you have a DELL Computer ?

The SB Live! Card has an EMU10k Chip.The SB Live! Value Card (usually DELL ships) has not the same chipset.
Since your Card is reported as EMU10Kx I am pretty sure that it's a vlaue card.

The "normal" SB Live is reported with EMU10K, without the X.

Unfortunately this card is on ALSA's Blacklist. So there isn't an ALSA driver for it.

There were some commercial OSS Drivers for that card for Linux, but after figuring
out how much the driver would cost, it would be cheaper for you to buy
a standard SB Live! Card. This card works very good.

Thanks, yes I do own a DELL computer
I was wondering if ALSA plans on supporting this hardware or if its better for me just to buy the soundcard now

Well I do not know if the ALSA Project plans support and when and if it will be available.
I decided to buy a new one.

DELL is, from the legal perspective, clean. They support the card with the OS they deliver,
which is Windows XP. The Value Card works only with XP. I do not know if it will
also be supported with Longhorn or not.

Since it's a new computer you may contact DELL asking them to replace your card or
at least take it back and give you money back.

Dell model of SB Live! will be supported starting w/ ALSA 1.0.6 release:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=214183