No soundcard mixer control

muddon · 05-24-2004, 07:05 PM

Hello.

I have a sb!live 5.1 and am using Mandrake 10. I am able to play and listen to mp3's but in every program I listen to them in I cannot control the sound via the given mixer(xmms) or kmix

Code:

my lsmod - cut down from full list

snd-pcm-oss            51812  0
snd-mixer-oss          17952  1 snd-pcm-oss
snd-emu10k1            85508  1 snd-emu10k1-synth
snd-rawmidi            23616  3 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-emu10k1
snd-pcm                93156  2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-emu10k1
snd-timer              24484  2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
snd-seq-device          8008  7 snd-seq-midi,snd-emu10k1-synth,snd-emux-synth,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi
snd-ac97-codec         58148  1 snd-emu10k1
snd-page-alloc         11972  2 snd-emu10k1,snd-pcm
snd-util-mem            4448  2 snd-emux-synth,snd-emu10k1
snd-hwdep               8928  2 snd-emux-synth,snd-emu10k1
snd                    52484  16 snd-seq-midi,snd-emux-synth,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-seq-device,snd-ac97-codec,snd-util-mem,snd-hwdep
soundcore               9248  2 bttv,snd

Code:

my lspci - full list

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16)
00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02)
00:0c.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

Code:

my modprobe.conf

alias eth0 8139too
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
options bttv tuner=8 card=38 gbuffers=4
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe usb-uhci; /bin/true
remove snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1

Any ideas on how to fix this?

mritch · 05-24-2004, 07:29 PM

take a look at the permissions for /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer, /dev/mixer1,....everthing group audio?
i see you have a tv-card. maybe you are adjusting this mixer? open a little mixer like rexima or so an play around while music is playing else edit the alternative mixer in your xmms configdialog to another you can find in /dev

muddon · 05-24-2004, 07:37 PM

I only have one 'mixer' in /dev/
and all the other settings are set group audio....still nothing

Electro · 05-24-2004, 07:41 PM

Put yourself in the group audio.

muddon · 05-24-2004, 08:05 PM

haha that was an easy catch. that worked thank you...however my line in is not working and doesnt look muted anywhere to me, any ideas?

mritch · 05-24-2004, 08:06 PM

i asume you are in group audio allready since you can play music. looks like the soundcard/bttv-card is your prob. the sb-card look ok (i never had one of that)- but can u use your bttv. does it work?

muddon · 05-24-2004, 08:13 PM

the tuner works i can see the picture however i have to loop the audio out from the tuner to the sound card. I have plugged my speakers to the tv card and have sound but when i loop the sound from the tuner to the sound card nothing

mritch · 05-24-2004, 08:40 PM

is the bttv card compiled in? if i take a look at lsmod/soundcore i see bttv before snd. i don't know if that means anything but maybe you can try to rmmod the bttv modules and try with sb only. this way your sound should work standard at dsp/mixer and i wonder what happens if you insert the bttv later.

haimeltjnfg · 05-24-2004, 09:09 PM

in debian, there's an alsa-oss package. Is there an alsa-oss package in mandrake?

muddon · 05-25-2004, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by haimeltjnfg
in debian, there's an alsa-oss package. Is there an alsa-oss package in mandrake?

yes there is my line in still does not work though