Tell me what you see in this file:

$ cat /etc/modules.conf

Hi all!

As I have the same problem as stargate, I would like to know what to do.
I run SuSE 9.1 on a DELL computer with Soundblaster Live! 5.1. Having installed the .rpm of Alsa 1.0.6 with YAST2 (from here: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i586.rpm.html) the soundcard is recognized and YAST2 tells me that emu10k1x is the driver to use.

However, somehow it is not installed/loaded (I'm not an expert in Linux). I find a file called emu10k1x.conf in /usr/share/alsa/cards but no snd-emu10k1x in /etc/alsa.d.

My /etc/modules.conf is empty and $ cat /etc/modules.conf returns an empty line.

This is what $ lsmod tells me about the sound modules:
snd_seq_oss 31232 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7680 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 54928 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_emu10k1 87816 0
snd_rawmidi 25508 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm 97032 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_timer 25860 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_seq_device 8456 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 62468 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_util_mem 5120 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 9860 1 snd_emu10k1
snd 61444 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_h


Do you have any suggestions what to do?


Thanks in advance!

Oops, I suppose SuSE and Mandrake will configure kernel modules differently....
You may wish to ask for help from SuSE users on how to manually changing driver modules.

On Mandrake, the /etc/modules.conf shows this:

$ cat /etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 sis900
above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1

I guess it would be just to modify the module name 'snd-emu10k1' to be 'snd-emu10k1x' . Now you may wish to ask other SuSE users on how to change ALSA modules, these detail may differ between distributions.

The problem seems to be that there is no 'emu10k1x' module. $modinfo emu10k1x returns: modinfo: could not find module emu10k1x.
However, there is this 'emu10k1x.conf' in /usr/share/alsa/cards. This is the only 'emu10k1x*' that can be found.

What about this:

# modinfo snd-emu10k1x

$ modinfo snd-emu10k1x -> modinfo: could not find module snd-emu10k1x

I used the rpm to install alsa 1.0.6. I will now try to do it manually and see if snd-emu10k1x is created.

Hello, I am a newbie to Linux. I am running SuSe 9.1. I have just installed an Audigy LS (awesome card-in Windows anyway...), and was dissapointed that Linux didn't support it until I found this thread. Now I need to figure out how to install ALSA 1.0.6, as I only have 1.0.3 I believe. I cannot get YaST to update this as it is grayed out. I downloaded all the "tarballs" from the ALSA site, but I have no clue what I really need or what to do with them. I looked through them for an install script but couldn't find one... Why won't YaST allow me to update this? I tried changing the option in System Update to allow new programs and not just the ones I have installed, but no dice. Any one have some idiot-instructions to get this working? Also does anyone know how I can get my mouse-wheel functionality back on my Logitech optical mouse. It was working, but then I screwed around in xf86cfg trying to get my screen resolution right (got that part going good). Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA

Ok so I see that this card is supposedly supported now that ALSA 1.0.6 is out. I am a total noob, so I dowloaded the rpm for SuSe. A little box came up asking me if I anted to install with YaST so I naturally clicked yes. It asked for root password, etc, and went through it's spiel and acted like it installed ALSA 1.0.6. I found the link for the rpm in a thread on here somewhere, but anyhow, YaST still does not recognize my sound card at all. I have tried all the kernels available, but none work (and I don't see emu10k1x anywhere. Anyone have simple instructions/help for the newbie monkey here?

I installed alsa 1.0.6 manually now, getting the files from the alsa homepage. alsaconf now recognizes my Dell Soundblaster Live! Value and configures snd-emu10k1x. Alas, I still have no sound. # hwinfo --sound gives

24: PCI 200.0: 0401 Multimedia audio controller
[Created at pci.244]
Unique ID: B35A.OTb4tcqddO0
Parent ID: 6NW+.c7JTK_YUBi2
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0
Hardware Class: sound
Model: "Creative [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X"
Vendor: pci 0x1102 "Creative Labs"
Device: pci 0x0006 "[SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X"
SubVendor: pci 0x1102 "Creative Labs"
SubDevice: pci 0x1003
I/O Ports: 0xcf20-0xcf3f (rw)
IRQ: 10 (no events)
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: snd-emu10k1x is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd-emu10k1x"
Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #17 (PCI bridge)


When I run # modprobe snd-emu10k1x, I get

FATAL: Error inserting snd_emu10k1x (/lib/modules/2.6.5-7.108-default/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd-emu10k1x.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)


# dmesg tells me something about snd_emu10k1x: unsupported module, tainting kernel. and lots of unknown symbols.

Finally, alsamixer doesn't start either:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device


I've spent hours looking in several forums. I've found lots and lots of threads describing similar problems. However I can't seem to get a solution for my problem out of them.

Do you have some hints, what could be wrong or missing?

I've got an Audigy LS that I'm trying to get working, should I be installing the AlsaCVS ->http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaCVS? What is a CVS?

I don't see that section, where is it?

I'm following these instructions; I'm using Mandrake 10 official.

I downloaded the driver, library, utils, and oss tarballs.. they seemed to compile ok. I didn't get any errors while configuring / making them.

This is where things start breaking :P

Also, when he talks about updating /etc/modprobe.conf (Mandrake 10 uses the 2.6 kernel doesn't it?) He says to look under the ALSA sound card matrix for details. My audigy ls isn't listed

Needless to say it's not working..

Well, ALSA 1.0.6 is now installed on my system, not that it's made any difference. I have run alsaconf, and it still says no PCI devices detected, then asks me if I want to look for legacy devices.... doh. I,ve tried everything I can think of (admittedly not much) and nothing works. The SuSe hardware page still claims this card is unsupported, but it is probably out of date. This is getting increasingly annoying, it's not like this is a brand new card or anything, it's been around for a while. Here's hoping someone figures this one out.

It looks like 2.6 kernel driver and ALSA may have conflict issue:

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaBuild2.6
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=aabuild

A recompilation of Kernel 2.6 maybe required to install and update ALSA separately.

Well, that sucks. Seeing as I have only been playing with Linux for less than 2 weeks, I know nothing about recompiling anything. It took me nearly all this time just to get my monitor resolution back to 1024x768, so I am far from ready to go recompiling things Hopefully this will end up with a simpler resolution. Thanks anyway.