Hi I know there are probably plenty of threads on this subject but none of them that i could find were helping me. I have redhat9 installed and i installed alsa-driver-0.9.6 my /etc/modules.conf looks like this

alias eth0 sis900
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
alias sound-slot-1 i810_audio
#ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave
alias snd-card-1 snd-cmipci
options snd-cmipci id="first" enable_midi="1"

#OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1

the sound card is a sound blaster live and then there is also onboard sound which i dont use. I installed alsa once before on this system but i had to reformat and reinstall RH9 cuz i messed it up installing ximian desktop is there any reason im not getting sound my xmms errors and shows a dialog that says

please check that:
1. you have the correct output plugin selected
2. no other programs is blocking the soundcard
3. your soundcard is configure properly

Sorry heres some other info that might help
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS645 Host & Memory & AGP Controller
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI
bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller
(rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7001 USB Controller
(rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 90)
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 03)
00:08.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 01)
00:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon VE QY
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4150
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4170

okay i just install .9.7a of alsa and now i dont get the error but i dont get sound either here is what my module.conf looks like
alias snd-card-1 snd-cmipci
options snd-cmipci id="first" enable_midi="1"

#OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss


so no error but no sound either can someone help me please?

Sorry some got cropped this is my modules.conf
alias eth0 sis900
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
alias sound-slot-1 i810_audio
#ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave
alias snd-card-1 snd-cmipci
options snd-cmipci id="first" enable_midi="1"

#OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

I don't lnow how much this is going tho help you but here is my modules.conf for the most part they are pretty close


alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 <module name>
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
post-install <module name> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore

Hey ElementNine, did you get your soundcard to work? I've got a SB Live in RH9, using alsa. No sound. XMMS says: snd_mixer_attach: unknown error

Any advice?

go here http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=emu10k1 thats the alsa page just follow its instructions exactly and everything should work it did for me. now if i could only get it to work on my laptop

Yup. Tried it. No errors, but no sound. Well, there are errors from XMMS, but I'm at work right now, so can't get you the codes until this evening.

If I tried installing the sourceforge emu10k1 driver, will this block the ALSA drivers?

hmm did you check both mixers? alsamixer and your normal RH9 pcm mixer i found that i had to have both of mine they were working independently

Yeah, I tried both.

I've found out that my SB Live! is actually a Dell-OEM card, and has a different chip (emu10k1X). I'm in the process of returning it and getting a real card.