After I got Enemy Territory working for the first time it ran fine and had sound. I quit playing, played a cd to make sure that worked and then went back to ET and now I have no sound. None of the Linux games have sound either but the cds still work fine. I checked alsamixer and kmixer and they are both all the way up and everything is unmuted. I'm using a SB LIVE 5.1, it's an original that I put in, and here is the output of the ET console:

------- sound initialization -------
------------------------------------
----- Sound Info -----
sound system is muted
1 stereo
32768 samples
16 samplebits
1 submission_chunk
48000 speed
0x482ca000 dma buffer
No background file.
----------------------
Sound memory manager started


LSMOD:


[root@66-152-36-157 trent]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
agpgart 48292 3 (autoclean)
nvidia 2126440 6 (autoclean)
lp 8160 0
parport_pc 25544 1
parport 34472 1 [lp parport_pc]
snd-seq-midi 5056 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-emu10k1-synth 5276 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-emux-synth 31900 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1-synth]
snd-seq-midi-emul 6924 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]
snd-seq-virmidi 4588 0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]
snd-seq-oss 32000 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 6080 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 42544 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-emu10k1 70948 2 [snd-emu10k1-synth]
snd-util-mem 3040 0 [snd-emux-synth snd-emu10k1]
snd-hwdep 6304 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-pcm-oss 43652 0
snd-mixer-oss 14200 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-via82xx 15360 3
snd-pcm 79588 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx]
snd-timer 18436 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 45720 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-via82xx]
snd-mpu401-uart 4704 0 [snd-via82xx]
snd-rawmidi 17760 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-emu10k1 snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1-synth snd-emux-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd-page-alloc 9044 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-via82xx snd-pcm]
snd 41380 5 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-emu10k1 snd-util-mem snd-hwdep snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 6340 0 [snd]
af_packet 14856 1 (autoclean)
sr_mod 19384 0 (autoclean)
floppy 55932 0
8139too 17384 1 (autoclean)
mii 3864 0 (autoclean) [8139too]
ohci1394 27696 0 (unused)
ieee1394 201284 0 [ohci1394]
supermount 84032 4 (autoclean)
ide-cd 33956 0
cdrom 32608 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi 11376 0
scsi_mod 106176 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
usb-uhci 25136 0 (unused)
usbcore 74988 1 [usb-uhci]
rtc 9004 0 (autoclean)
ext3 60048 2
jbd 39264 2 [ext3]

So it says sound is muted in ET but the mixer is all the way up and nothing is muted.

TIA

try these commands:
killall artsd
killall arts
killall esd
and make sure aRts or esd (the kde and gnome sound servers) are disabled.

Just comes back with no process killed. I'm using KDE for the moment and the arts server is disabled.

Does it work with arts running? Your've got a lot of different sound modules running there do you have onboard as well as the sblive card? Perhaps the games are trying to use the onboard s/c

btw, i know its a little off topic, but its a good idea to disable supermount, because it confuses cd detection for game installation like ut2003. just a thought. and, it does look like you have alot of modules loaded for using just one soundcard. maybe you could try disabling onboard sound in the BIOS?

i find its usually cos sumthing is hogging the sound card.

su -
[passwd]
lsof /dev/dsp

will give u the PID of any porcess using the soud card.

kill PID should free it up.

Thanks guys, the onboard was the key. Forgot to disable that before install when I did PnP.