I have a 5.1 creative audigy sound blaster live speaker system set up in my room. I've been a windows user for a long time and just within the last todays have been on linux. When i tried fedora it automatically was able to give me sound. But since i made the switch to slackware im not able to. does anyone have any idea how i can get sound??

i tried the alsamixer to see if it was muted, i unmuted, but nothing came up.
please help!

thanks in advance!

Have you checked whether the card is recognised ect? - su to root user in an xterm and post the output of

lspci -v

and

lsmod

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for the lspci -v........

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System Controller (rev 13)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at de005000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at c000 [disabled] [size=4]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
Memory behind bridge: dc000000-ddffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d4000000-dbffffff

00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A PCI to ISA Bridge
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 Bus Master ATA133/100/66/33 IDE
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at c400 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at c800 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at cc00 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2

00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)
Subsystem: Creative Labs SB0090 Audigy Player
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at e000 [size=32]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 03)
Subsystem: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game Port
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at e400 [size=8]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:0c.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at de004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 03)
Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI128
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at e800 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: AOPEN Inc.: Unknown device 0027
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
Memory at de006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti 500] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc.: Unknown device 2863
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 10
Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0



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and the lsmod

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
nvidia 1628576 11 (autoclean)
snd-pcm-oss 37252 0
snd-mixer-oss 11992 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
parport_pc 14724 0
parport 23264 0 [parport_pc]
uhci 24496 0 (unused)
usbcore 58400 1 [uhci]
snd-emu10k1 60212 0
snd-hwdep 4672 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-util-mem 1136 0 [snd-emu10k1]
emu10k1-gp 1352 0 (unused)
ohci1394 24200 0 (unused)
ieee1394 42436 0 [ohci1394]
snd-ens1371 11596 1
gameport 1452 0 [emu10k1-gp snd-ens1371]
snd-pcm 55904 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-ens1371]
snd-timer 13252 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc 6004 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 12512 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-ens1371]
snd-seq-device 3920 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 37240 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-ens1371]
snd 27460 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore 3332 14 [snd]
8139too 15240 1
mii 2304 0 [8139too]
crc32 2880 0 [8139too]
ide-scsi 9424 0
agpgart 39576 3



Hope that helps, i didnt know to post the output. Thanks in advance if anyone has any answers!

Since no one seems to know what to do. Should I just switch back to fedora?? Because i dont think I'll be able to get my sound to work.

ok, do not switch, problem is slackware does not load soundcards automatically (not a problem in my opinion) try this first:

modrpobe emu10k1

that shoudl work or give error (type dmesg and read last few lines after module load)

if that does not work u need to eather compile u'r own kernel (easy if u know ur hardware top many people blow it way out of preportion, first time ever in linux kernel compile was first thing I did)

or you can install alsa (alsa.sourceforge.net) I use it and it works great

I dont know how to compile my kernel. Any documentation on that? I hear there is alot but i would like to know a good one. Also, what is alsa?

well, there are many docs about it, google it, or go to www.tldp.org they have a large howto database and it is a good place to go for any kinda howto or walk through. also as a slacker you might go to www.slackware.com and click book and go to chapter on kernel compile, but it is slightly outdated and not even close for 2.6 kernels.

hey , about modprobe emu10k1 ( not modrpobe emu10k1)

did it work???

if it did, edit your rc.modules file
find and uncomment the option

#modprobe emu10k1

->remove the #

it will load the module everytime you reboot

In fedora go Applications menu --> sound & video --> Volume Control
then go edit menu, click prefrences, tick "analog front" and open up some.. it may work..

and if you have some kind of problem like this --> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=375155
follow the topic

Hi,
If it's any help I found that emu10k was loaded etc but play test sound produced nothing. Problem turned out to be resolved by running Kmix --> Switches and selecting the Audigy column.

cheers... Ian.

I justed wanted to say thank you for the help. I had a similar question to this in another thread. I checked out similar threads and found my answer here.