Just wondering if anyone hear has an Audigy LS working on Fedora Core 3 .... I use the Gnome desktop but from what I remember couldn't get it working.

I have onboard sound too, which works, but sounds like someone banging on trashcans.

Do I need to do anything special to get it working?? Or does it work right out of the box with Fedora Core 3?

AMD 2600+ Barton
1GB PC2700
Geforce 6800 GT OC
Fedora Core 3 (2.6.10 kernel)
SB Audigy LS / or onboard audio

It should work just fine. emu10k1 driver for OSS, and snd_emu10k1 driver for ALSA.

hmmm nah its not even detecting it....it find my onboard but not my audigy...any other tips?

Disable the onboard sound in your bios.
Please post the output of 'lspci'

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS MIDI/Game port
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800 South]
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT] (rev a1)

Still no sound...and it won't detect it for me....any idea??

It is detected here just fine. Really all you should need to do is load the drivers for it.
'modprobe emu10k1' for OSS, and 'modprobe snd_emu10k1' if you use ALSA.

If modprobe gives you a 'module not found' error then you are going to have to build a new kernel with support for this soundcard.

Im curious (newbie to linux) During installation of your kernel if you chose your sound device to load as a module, will the kernel load it automatically at startup or will you have to load it manually.

Depending on the distro, usually the file modules.conf contains the modules that will be loaded automatically. So to answer your question, the kernel will load the modules automatically...if you tell it to.

Ok so now that I've done this whats next??? How do I enable my sound restart or something? I want to be able to control it with the mixer and stuff...

If the driver loaded with no errors then it should just work.

Try playing a song ... make sure you have the right output plugin selected (either OSS or ALSA depending on what you are using.)

no nothing...if I run say xmms from term I get this error:
** WARNING **: alsa_get_mixer(): Attaching to mixer hw:0 failed: No such device

Can you post the output of 'lsmod' and also 'ls -l /dev/mixer /dev/dsp'...

[root@localhost alsa-utils-1.0.8]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_emu10k1_synth 7745 0
snd_emux_synth 38081 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 6593 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_event 8129 1 snd_seq_virmidi
snd_seq_midi_emul 6593 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq 54097 4 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi_emul
snd_emu10k1 91845 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_util_mem 4801 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 8901 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
nls_utf8 2113 1
parport_pc 26501 0
lp 12077 0
parport 36617 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 22981 0
sunrpc 154149 1
ipt_REJECT 6593 1
ipt_state 1857 1
ip_conntrack 40309 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 3521 1
ip_tables 16321 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
video 15813 0
button 6609 0
battery 9285 0
ac 4805 0
nvidia 3473692 12
joydev 9217 0
md5 4033 1
ipv6 230273 8
uhci_hcd 31321 0
ehci_hcd 34761 0
emu10k1_gp 3649 0
i2c_viapro 7245 0
i2c_core 20801 1 i2c_viapro
snd_via82xx 27361 0
snd_ac97_codec 67105 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_via82xx
snd_pcm_oss 47861 0
snd_mixer_oss 17089 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 92233 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 28357 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9541 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
gameport 4801 2 emu10k1_gp,snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart 8769 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 25441 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8525 5 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd 52261 14 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_hwdep,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9889 1 snd
via_rhine 23369 0
mii 4673 1 via_rhine
dm_snapshot 16901 0
dm_zero 2497 0
dm_mirror 22957 2
ext3 116041 2
jbd 68185 1 ext3
dm_mod 55509 6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
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[root@localhost alsa-utils-1.0.8]# ls -l /dev/mixer/ /dev/dsp
ls: /dev/mixer/: Not a directory
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 1 16:03 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0
[root@localhost alsa-utils-1.0.8]#
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I figured out I only had ALSA 1.0.6 by default...so I tried to configure and install ALSA 1.0.8 ....no luck though when I tried to configure the ALSA Utils I ran into a problem.

[root@localhost alsa-utils-1.0.8]# ./configure;make;makeinstall
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... /bin/sh: ./config.rpath: No such file or directory
done
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for cross-compiler... gcc
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ALSA CFLAGS...
checking for ALSA LDFLAGS... -lasound -lm -ldl -lpthread
checking for libasound headers version >= 1.0.8... not present.
configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
bash: makeinstall: command not found

Sorry about the *bump* but I still need help badly so I can get some sound.....

I know you say you've been through installing ALSA drivers. But let me ask you again:

Did you follow the instructions on this site "exactly"?

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=emu10k1

Yours is LS but I guess that's the same thing as ES?

I have an Audigy 2 Value card and it wouldn't detect it with ALSA 1.0.6 just like yours (I also had on-board sound which I had turned off). I installed alsa-driver alsa-lib alsa-utils from the ALSA site following their instructions exactly and Linux detected my card as an unknown card after reboot. My sound works now.