I have already checked the www.alsa-project.org site but cannot find audigy 2 list on their sound matrix listing. I assume there is no support of any kind for this card yet in linux?

I did some poking around and it seems that opensound has got it going:

http://www.opensound.com/oss.html

Also, check the devel lists at ALSA, the alsa that shipped with Mandy 9.0 is of course about 4 months old, so they might have nailed it, I didn't want to get too in depth checking...

Cheers,

Finegan

Well it seems the newest emu10k1 project driver has added support for Audigy2 but Im having some problems getting it running. I followed the directions from the site, all the driver steps go smoothly and tell me its been installed, but I get errors after the "/sbin/ modprobe emu10k1" command. I think I may have too many sound drivers installed, the default emu10k1 0.19 from the distro, I also installed ALSA but it did not work with the card, I tried "make clean" but im a novice so if you can tell me how to fully uninstall it be appreciated.

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: init_module: No such device.

Check syslog or output from dmesg.

From syslog:

Jan 27 21:45:54 noah kernel: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4191 Mon Dec 9 11:49:01 PST 2002
Jan 27 21:45:56 noah kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
Jan 27 21:45:56 noah kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
Jan 27 21:45:56 noah kernel: agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT266 chipset
Jan 27 21:45:56 noah kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xe0000000
Jan 27 21:46:10 noah modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Jan 27 21:46:10 noah modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Jan 27 21:46:10 noah modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Jan 27 21:46:10 noah modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Jan 27 22:01:00 noah CROND[2351]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Jan 27 22:43:01 noah kernel: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20a, 22:42:34 Jan 27 2003
Jan 27 22:43:01 noah kernel: devfs_register(sound/audio): could not append to parent, err: -17
Jan 27 22:43:01 noah kernel: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.19, 18:47:01 Sep 20 2002
Jan 27 22:43:26 noah kernel: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20a, 22:42:34 Jan 27 2003
Jan 27 22:43:26 noah kernel: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.19, 18:47:01 Sep 20 2002
Jan 27 22:43:47 noah kernel: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20a, 22:42:34 Jan 27 2003
Jan 27 22:43:47 noah kernel: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.19, 18:47:01 Sep 20 2002
Jan 27 23:01:00 noah CROND[2643]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Jan 27 23:13:59 noah kernel: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20a, 22:42:34 Jan 27 2003
Jan 27 23:13:59 noah kernel: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.19, 18:47:01 Sep 20 2002

...

Jan 27 23:26:33 noah kernel: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20a, 23:26:11 Jan 27 2003
Jan 27 23:26:33 noah kernel: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.19, 18:47:01 Sep 20 2002
Jan 27 23:30:54 noah modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Jan 27 23:30:54 noah modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Jan 27 23:30:54 noah modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Jan 27 23:30:54 noah modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Jan 27 23:31:35 noah modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Jan 27 23:31:35 noah modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Jan 27 23:31:35 noah modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Jan 27 23:31:35 noah modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Jan 28 00:01:00 noah CROND[3854]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)

I didn't see anything relevant to the problem in dmesg, any ideas?

Gah... you have loadded a bunch of weirdness, if any of them modprobed right, without kicking errors, you should have a working card. If its trying to autoload a million conflicting modules at boot, find out where it installed them and move them, if the kernel can't find them, it'll just skip them and go on, for normal OSS modules, this is:

/lib/modules/2.4.19-mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/

for alsa, probably:

/lib/modules/2.4.19-mdk/alsa

Or, all this installing has probably put a bunch of lines in /etc/modules.conf, you could just comment those out and it should stop trying to load all this goop.

Then try modprobing (and rmmod) one set at a time until you get some that stick without errors, my money is still on OSS.

Cheers,

Finegan

Well I didn't try any of that you said above, but I recompiled my kernel to optimize it to make use of AMD processor and after the recompile, I now get full surround sound. Still haven't gotten the tools working right though to adjust the levels.