Ive finally managed to get Mandrake up and running and I'm absolutely amazed.

One problem though - I cant get any sound

My audigy (1) soundcard was detected during installation and my speakers were working fine in Windoze

Can anybody give me any pointers 1/ to get sound and 2/ to get the best sound possible

Thanks

Moving to Linux - Hardware

I know that in some versions of Linux they came defaulted to "mute" so check your mixer controls (K --- Multimedia --- Sound Mixer OR run 'kmix' without the ' ) and make sure it's unmuted, the volume is up and it's working. You can make sure it's detecting the sound card properly in the Mandrake Control Center as well.

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u probably hav the same problems as me even though wehave different sound cards (TBS Montego 2). You need to do a lot of research online. what i had to do was d/l the driver, then find the right kernel source, then do some hex editing, then install finally. as a newb it took me 3 days to do it. thats working all day too.

The SB audigy is an emu10k1 chipset, it probably loaded the emu10k1 module... You're probably using the digital out or the analog out and its set for the opposite one by default. There's a package specific to this card known as emu-tools... but it being Mandrake, you have the alsa driver... which like MasterC pointed out, are muted by default, so the first sentence is pointless... you're using the alsa equivalents...

Yeah, check to see if its muted, check to see if you've got the right speaker line. On certain cards Windows and Linux scan the lines in the opposite directions, so with a twin speaker out, Linux's line #1 will be Line #2 to windows... its arbitrary and coincidental. Most likely though its a digital/analog switch.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks for the replies

Being a *complete* newb can you please explain:

1/ emu10k1 and alsa.

2/ How I check to see which one I'm using

3/ How I can configure if necessary

Thanks for your patience

Uhmm... I got halfway through posting and remembered Mandrake uses alsa.

The normal, in kernel modules, at least for now anyway, are usually calles the oss modules... all the kernel modules end in .o, so the oss module for the audigy is:

emu10k1.o

Now, the alsa modules are what mandrake and Suse use, and soon they'll also be the kernel default standard, but no need to get ahead... that's at least a year down the line.

/sbin/lsmod

Will list all of the currently loaded modules. I don't remember the alsa module for the emu10k chip, but it doesn't matter, you're probably using it, and alsa loads ALOT of modules. Alsa, is also, muted by default, so you first may want to check under whatever mixer you have in "multimedia" under your kde or gnome menu, and see what's muted.

The other big thing is since this card does both digital and analog out, you may have your speakers plugged into the one that its not configured to use... hopefully the mixer will be able to flip them.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks Finegan

I swapped over from digital to analogue and I've now got sound!!!

I'm not sure whether the sound's of the same quality as before (in Windows) and I don't think I'm getting 5.1 like before but it's better than nothing

Thanks for all your help

Nah, you're not getting 5.1 right now, that's what the digital out is for... I think there's a way to get it to work under Alsa, I don't know though... if you want to try to switch to the oss module, there's a package of tools for it called emu-tools, that you can probably grab in RPM format from sourceforge, then hack up your modules.conf file to load the oss module and you should be able to get digital out... a lot of work, but maybe something you may want to fiddle with down the road.

Cheers,

Finegan