I have creative sound blaster 5.1 vx sound card.It is not working...can anyone pls help me out??
how to install its driver??

Alsa sound driver should support that card. Have a look here -->http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...-Creative_Labs

The sound drivers are listed. Looks like your card, I can't be positive until you run the command 'lspci' as root, and post the results. Run the command without the quotes.

While you have a konsole open, run the command as root 'lsmod | grep snd' and post the results. If nothing shows up, then your driver is not loaded.

Please also post the distro and release you are running. By your sig looks like ubuntu. Is that correct?

You could also verify the sound volume that is at 0 for some parts of the card by default (verify "general volume" and "PCM") using volume control.

If you don't hear sound, this is the problem in most case, if you have an error saying to you don't have any card, then verify your drivers.

lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:11.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 04)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series]
02:00.0 Modem: PCTel Inc HSP56 MicroModem (rev 04)
02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev 80)


and my distro is ubuntu 8.10

output for lsmod | grep snd :
snd_atiixp 24204 4
snd_seq_dummy 10884 0
snd_ca0106 40480 0
snd_ac97_codec 111652 2 snd_atiixp,snd_ca0106
snd_pcm_oss 46848 0
snd_mixer_oss 22784 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss 38528 0
snd_pcm 83204 5 snd_atiixp,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
ac97_bus 9856 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_midi 14336 0
snd_rawmidi 29824 2 snd_ca0106,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 15232 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 57776 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 29960 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 15116 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 63268 18 snd_atiixp,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_s eq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 15328 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 16136 3 snd_atiixp,snd_ca0106,snd_pcm