Audigy 2 LS No Sound - Mandrake 10.0 Community

Hello,

Anyone else having problem with Audigy 2 ZS soundcard after installing Mandrake 10.0 Community? The same soundcard was working on Mandrake 9.2. Any inputs/ suggestions/ links to possible soultion are greatly appreciated! Please. :)

[user@localhost user]$ grep sound-slot
/etc/modules.conf
alias sound-slot-0 audigy

[user@localhost user]$ /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
isofs 33912 1
zlib_inflate 22656 1 isofs
snd-emu10k1 85508 0
snd-rawmidi 23616 1 snd-emu10k1
snd-pcm 93156 1 snd-emu10k1
snd-timer 24484 1 snd-pcm
snd-seq-device 8008 2
snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi
snd-ac97-codec 58148 1 snd-emu10k1
snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-emu10k1,snd-pcm
snd-util-mem 4448 1 snd-emu10k1
snd-hwdep 8928 1 snd-emu10k1
snd 52484 8
snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-seq-device,snd-ac97-codec,snd-util-mem,snd-hwdep
soundcore 9248 1 snd
loop 13896 0
md5 3872 1
ipv6 232352 6
sg 38044 0
sr_mod 17060 0
af_packet 20520 2
ide-floppy 18752 0
ide-tape 34864 0
ide-cd 40548 1
cdrom 37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd
floppy 59444 0
ipt_TOS 2240 12
ipt_REJECT 6464 4
ipt_LOG 5312 6
ipt_state 1728 12
ipt_multiport 1856 0
ipt_conntrack 2304 0
iptable_filter 2624 1
iptable_mangle 2624 1
iptable_nat 23116 0
ip_conntrack 31152 3
ipt_state,ipt_conntrack,iptable_nat
ip_tables 16704 9
ipt_TOS,ipt_REJECT,ipt_LOG,ipt_state,ipt_multiport,ipt_conntrack,iptable_filter,iptable_mangle,iptab le_nat
tulip 45248 0
ohci1394 33956 0
ieee1394 287856 1 ohci1394
nls_iso8859-1 3904 2
ntfs 85932 2
supermount 37876 2
intel-agp 17372 1
agpgart 31016 1 intel-agp
ppa 12296 0
parport_pc 32832 0
imm 12360 0
scsi_mod 114744 4 sg,sr_mod,ppa,imm
parport 38952 3 ppa,parport_pc,imm
usbkbd 6912 0
joydev 10240 0
tsdev 7168 0
evdev 9504 0
usbmouse 5216 0
hid 53312 0
uhci-hcd 29104 0
usbcore 99132 6
usbkbd,usbmouse,hid,uhci-hcd
rtc 11576 0
ext3 110376 2
jbd 54328 1 ext3

[user@localhost user]$ aumix -q
vol 100, 100
bass 50, 50
treble 50, 50
synth 0, 100
pcm 100, 100
speaker 100, 100
line 77, 77
mic 0, 80
cd 77, 77
line1 0, 77
dig1 80, 80
phin 0, 0
phout 0, 0


/sbin/chkconfig --list sound
sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on
5:on 6:off

/sbin/chkconfig --list alsa
alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on

Try 'alsaconf', it always works for me.

Try using alsa with the snd-emu10k1 driver and turning off the optical output in the mixer.

Thanks ghow961 and colnago. Changed to alsa driver and turned off optical raw in alsa mixer did the trick and now the card is working, but only on the root account. Thank you !

There is still no sound for users account. I granted my personal user account access to /dev/sound/mixer, /dev/mixer and /dev/audio. (permission 700) but the user still cannot change alsa setting (ie tried to turn off optical raw but it came back everytime I re-log in). I will try to search for solution but if anyone knows the solution, please kindly let me know. Thank you. :)

I didn't get that problem, but you could try putting this into your .bashrc

amixer set "IEC958 Optical Raw" off

I am sure there is a much better solution you should use, otherwise you would have to put similar lines in to set the volume as well.

After some tweakings, my user account was able to save alsa mixer settings but then there was still no sound. So I tried creating a new user and made it a member of users and audio. To my surprise, sound was heard when I logged on using the new user. So I deleted my troubled user account and recreated it and now sound is playing on both root and user.

Thank you very much for your help! Cheers!

I just installed mandrake 10 and have the audigy 2 card... didn't have sound at first then installed the alsa-dev pak and it started working... i get sound just fine but also get this very annoying gurgle sound as soon as the driver loads up and it continues to make this sound the whole time... any ideas ? I also have an onboard via97 card... not sure if that is causing any problems with it....

thanks for any help

For Mandrake 10 go to the advance on and click, then turn off the analog audiogy and it should work.

on the kmix menu when you click on the volume

I'm trying to get my Audigy 2 to work, too. When MDK10 starts, I hear a few sounds, but I can't get any sound out of any other applications. What exactly should I do to make it work? I read through the post, but I was kind of lost. Yes, I'm a Linux/MDK newbie. I'd appreciate it if somebody could walk me through the steps. Thanks in advance.

Arb

Originally posted by webterractive For Mandrake 10 go to the advance on and click, then turn off the analog audiogy and it should work.

I got the same prob. as other, i turned off analog audigy in kmix and the sound worked.

What is "analog" in this context ? i'm kinda confused ;-)

Thx

bump

Could somebody tell me exactly how they got their Audigy 2 working? Did you have to use a different driver? Any help is appreciated (especially in-depth instructions). Thanks.

Arb

Originally posted by Arbitor bump Could somebody tell me exactly how they got their Audigy 2 working? Did you have to use a different driver? Any help is appreciated (especially in-depth instructions). Thanks. Arb

I use Drake 10.0 community. I own a sound blaster audigy gamer (the first audigy, not the second)

I used the mandrake control center to change the sound driver to alsa "snd-em10k1" , i was required to mute "audigy-analog" in k mix (advanced) to have clear sound .

I hope this can help you with your audigy 2 ...

Hmmmm...

Well, I was messing around with trying to download ALSA drivers last night, and I think I screwed something up, because now I can't launch KMix. The window will come up, but there won't be anything inside the window, and there'll be an "x" on the icon in the taskbar in the bottom right. Any ideas? Thanks.

Arb

Originally posted by Arbitor Hmmmm... Well, I was messing around with trying to download ALSA drivers last night, and I think I screwed something up, because now I can't launch KMix. The window will come up, but there won't be anything inside the window, and there'll be an "x" on the icon in the taskbar in the bottom right. Any ideas? Thanks. Arb

What actually did you do to mess kmix ?

On my other box, i updated alsa, it was a drake 9.1, i just compiled and it worked ( i was amazed it actualy worked. I'm still a newbie)

About kmix, you can try to re-install the package '"kdemultimedia-kmix-3.2-11mdk" (on my 10.0 community). You can do (or try): rpm -qf /usr/bin/kmix it will tell you what package kmix was installed from. But since i dont realy know what you did to mess it....

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