Hi,

I just installed the ALSA drivers for my new SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro card. I understand that the card is supported, and I followed ALSA's directions to install it. [I can't post the URL here since I'm a new forum user... but I can provide the URL if needed.] I have succeeded in playing music to my speakers.

But, I can't record anything. KMix lists all of the audio capture devices in Output, and KDE applications like Audacity don't see any inputs and thus don't record anything. I installed the ALSA OSS emulation, as I notice that KMix claims it uses OSS, but this didn't seem to help.

Has anyone ever seen this before? Does anyone know how I can get KDE to understand that Line-In is an input device?

Thanks.

Have you opened control centre and gone to "Sound & Multimedia->Sound System" and setup the hardware tab to use ALSA?

I'm running KDE 3.2.0, and I understand that there is no ALSA support until 3.2.2. I was hoping the OSS wrapper would do the trick?

The more I poke around, the more I think that this may not even be a KDE problem. alsamixer lists Microphone/etc. under Playback, so it seems that I've traced the probem to a lower level than KDE. But I'm still completely clueless about how to fix it :/

The module may not be loaded. You need to know the module name and root do the following command
#/sbin/modprobe <module-name>

Which module are you talking about? The sound card modules are all loaded. As I said, I get playback...

root@duckytown:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 37344 1 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 12888 2 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
[...]
snd-emu10k1 79888 3
snd-hwdep 4928 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-util-mem 1136 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-ac97-codec 59420 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-pcm 55328 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-ac97-codec]
snd-timer 13956 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 12928 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device 4052 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd 33124 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3332 8 [snd]
snd-page-alloc 5096 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd]

This is a list of loaded modules in you system which would indicate sound should be working. But when you may need to load a different driver to get it working. Have you googled to find the appropriate driver. I don't know the card and I don't know the driver modules name. This is as far I can take you.

I am 100% sure that I have the right module. I've read about this module in the docs; I followed ALSA's installation for my specific sound card (SoundBlaster Audigy ZS Platinum Pro); and, I used the same driver with a previous SoundBlaster card.

I appreciate your help... I, too, wish that this was just the wrong driver, but I'm afraid that the problem runs a lot deeper than that.

Take a look at this thread.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=336927