I run Suse 9.1 personal and have problems with getting the soundcard to work. It's a creative soundblaster live 7.1 (model SB0410) Apparently it isn't really well supported. Then I thought I could try the ca0106-driver mentioned (in the thread I was going to post about, but wasn't allowed), but since I'm a newbie to linux I didn't get very far with that either. So what I need now, is some help to get this thing working. And please say it as simple as possible so I might understand what to do.

uname -r gives 2.6.4-52-default

result of /sbin/lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset Host Bridge (MCH) (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 04)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200] (rev a3)
0000:02:01.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
0000:02:01.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
0000:02:01.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
0000:02:02.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
0000:02:02.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
0000:02:02.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
0000:02:08.0 Network controller: Eicon Networks Corporation Diva 2.02 PCI S/T
0000:02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs: Unknown device 0007
0000:02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 10)

A little extra info: I tried to do this, that returned an error:

The Sound Blaster Live card has full support in your distro, AFAICT. I would uninstall all other drivers first. Then go here: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaCVS which is what is mentioned to do here: http://www.alsa-project.org/~james/a...ld/install.txt

Then follow the instructions. The instructions are fairly detailed, but confusing for me, as I'm a newbe too. I would guess that if you follow them it will become clear. That your lspci says it is an unknown device sounds strange, however. Is it plugged in correctly? Hopefully someone else will come along with more help.

ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distrib...9.1/suse/i586/ is the server closest to you if you get dependancy errors or need GCC or make.

I tried to do as told in that link, but when I was going to get the cvs file, the link didn't work.

How do I uninstall the other drivers?
I think it is plugged in correctly, since it works in windows. ( I have dualboot)

I tried the link and found it to be dead too. You might try the SUSE Linux forums here: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?act=idx and ask them there. I know you can use this card in Linux, you just need the module to work! Hopefully someone else will come along and chime in too.

if everyone would just DL the kernel source and conpile ALSA and the driver RIGHT INTO the kernel the world would be a better place...

It probably would be, so tell me how to do it properly then.

So true, but newbies are mostly stuck in RPM land. A little explanation or a link would be very helpful.

FYI: I talked AKH into trying SUSE in another forum, and now there is this blasted sound card trouble. I'm at a loss to help past what I said above, so any help would be appreciated.