Slackware 11-Sound/Creative Labs

Cha0s_Penguin · 10-26-2006, 11:30 PM

Hello, It's my first time posting so thanks for letting me on here and I hope to learn and contribute as well. I've been haveing an issue with slackware for along time now..Slackware was the first *nix i cut my teeth on and I havent really strayed elsewhere. The issue I have was never of much worry because I mainly used slackware in the shell so I could get comfortable with *nix and slackware. But now I have become more comfortable with it and I would like to fix this as I start to use Slackware as my main GUI setup. I have a Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum sound card along with 5.1 creative lab speakers..I installed Slackware 11 huge26 along with the headers and modules and checked alsamixer and stored it with alsactl. And I still do not get sound...I never got sound before but it was never a bother. It might be quite newbish but any help would be greatly appreciated. There are many things to configure in the alsamixer but I made sure PCM and MAster and some others werent muted and cranked up but still no luck. Thank You

J.W. · 10-27-2006, 12:01 AM

Welcome to LQ. First thing to check are the basics: are the speakers turned on, are they plugged into the correct jack on the sound card, is the volume knob turned up, is the mute button on, if you have a soundcard and onboard sound is the onboard sound disabled (via BIOS), is the volume slider controller of your sound app (XMMS, kaffeine, etc) turned up sufficiently, are the correct kernel modules loaded....

Sakirious · 10-27-2006, 01:07 AM

Yeah I was having a similar problem with my Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit card. I haven't managed to fix it, although, some sounds do work.

Ilgar · 10-27-2006, 01:54 AM

You seem to have made all the checks. As J.W. asked, is there an onboard card which becomes the default one? If so, you can disable it by blacklisting it (in hotplug or udev, whichever you use).

gegechris99 · 10-27-2006, 02:14 AM

Can we get the result of commands "lsmod" and "lspci"(run as root) to check which modules are loaded and what is your hardware ?

Old_Fogie · 10-27-2006, 02:52 AM

I have this card on slackware 10.2 and 11.0 right now and it works.

running alsaconf finds the card no issues for me, alsamixer shows all volumes up, but no sound.

I had to check off (e.g. activate) "external amplifier" in KMIX to get it to work.

then i just did 'alsactl store' and then '/etc/rc.d/rc.alsa restart' and i was good to go.

fogie.

Cha0s_Penguin · 10-28-2006, 11:33 PM

Hey guys, Thanks for the help!!! J.W I have an Asus A7V333 im not sure on the onboard audio but ill be rebooting in a few so ill get into BIOS to let you know whats up but if memory serves me right. I dont even think I have onboard audio...I have checked the basics of making sure plugs were connected and sliders and etc...Fogie I tried your advice but it didnt work...
LSMOD gives me....

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
snd_seq_dummy           2820  0
snd_seq_oss            28928  0
snd_seq_midi_event      5888  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                43984  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            38048  0
snd_mixer_oss          15616  1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6                  223584  12
sg                     26524  0
capability              3336  0
commoncap               5376  1 capability
lp                      9800  0
parport_pc             24132  1
parport                30024  2 lp,parport_pc
pcspkr                  2432  0
psmouse                34952  0
shpchp                 33816  0
tulip                  46240  0
emu10k1_gp              2944  0
gameport               10760  2 emu10k1_gp
serio_raw               5252  0
via_agp                 7808  1
i2c_viapro              7572  0
snd_emu10k1           104356  0
agpgart                28080  1 via_agp
snd_rawmidi            18720  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec         86304  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_bus            2048  1 snd_ac97_codec
evdev                   8064  0
snd_pcm                73736  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device          6284  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              19332  3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          7560  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            3328  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep               6660  1 snd_emu10k1
snd                    43364  11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore               7136  1 snd

and LSPCI gives me...

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
00:06.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20276 (MBFastTrak133 Lite) (rev 01)
00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
00:09.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
00:09.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
00:09.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)
00:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 03)
00:0d.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 ND [Radeon 9700 Pro]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 [Radeon 9700 Pro] (Secondary)

I hope this helps any...this problem has been on my case =\

Boow · 10-29-2006, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sakirious

Yeah I was having a similar problem with my Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit card. I haven't managed to fix it, although, some sounds do work.

Dont know if this will help but the module for that card is snd-ca0106

Boow · 10-29-2006, 10:06 PM

are your sound apps working but just with no sound or do they error out when you try to start a sound apps. you might try disabling arts or check dmesg to see if the irq for your sound is disabled. you can try pci=routeirq or disable acpi with acpi=off at the kernel boot command line