SBLive 5.1 In Gentoo - tried to setup ALSA now KDE Sound doesn't even work
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SBLive 5.1 In Gentoo - tried to setup ALSA now KDE Sound doesn't even work
I just installed Gentoo from the 2004.0 minimal CD
I am using kernel 2.4.25-gentoo-r2
installed:
nvidia drivers(work)
XFree86(works)
KDE(works,except sound) just did 'emerge kde' so everything that installs with that
Enlightenment(works as far as I can tell)
Entrance(works)
ALSA drivers for emu10k1(SBLIVE)(DOESN'T WORK)
ALSA OSS crap
when I boot I get multiple errors saying that it can't load the emu10k1 module
I did everything the ALSA Gentoo setup guide said to do and I'm totally lost
This is my first time using Gentoo or ALSA
'modprobe snd-emu10k1' gave me no output. When I typed 'alsaconf' into my console and hit enter I got:
/usr/sbin/alsaconf: line 33: [: too many arguments
/usr/sbin/alsaconf: line 35: [: too many arguments
which: no dialog in (/usr/kde/3.2/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.2/sbin:/usr/kde/3.2/bin)
which: no whiptail in (/usr/kde/3.2/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.2/sbin:/usr/kde/3.2/bin)
Error, dialog or whiptail not found.
if modprobe runs with no output, it means the modules has loaded successfully. Try using alsamixer to unmute everything, then try to play something with aplay. (they should be in either the alsa-utils package or the alsa-tools package)
Sound works again. Sorta KMix is now reporting that I have a 'SigmaTel STAC9708/11'. And I don't have OGain anymore which controlled the rear audio. In alsamixer I can't do anything to 'Headphone LFE 1', 'Headphone Center 1', 'Tone', or '3D Control - Switch' except mute and unmute. So... Basically I have Stereo Sound only on a Dolby Digital 5.1 System... Oh yeah, alsamixer tells me I have an SBLive with that SigmaTel Chipset...
A couple more things you could check:
1) look at the lsmod output to make sure you don't have multiple sound card modules inserted.
2) look at the lspci output to make sure your sound card has an emu10k1 chip. There are a few SBLive! cards out there with different chipsets.
doesn't look like I have multiple soundcard modules but truthfully I don't really know.
Also, KDE and XMMS say that they are using OSS. I'm guessing this is the ALSA OSS deal. but Point2Play(the WINEX GUI) can't access my sound card. I read through the readme and stuff. It said to disable ARTs and close any programs that are using the OSS driver. When I checked ARTs was already suspended.
Your sound card appears to be configured correctly. Maybe the ALSA emu10k1 drivers don't support surround sound? I wouldn't know because I have never had a 5.1 sound card.
That's really odd... cuz according to everything I've seen at opensource.creative.com ALSA is supposed to give better EMU10K1 Support than the official drivers... F.I. The official EMU10K1 driver doesn't provide MIDI support ALSA supposedly does(although it doesn't work on mine). BTW: Sound does work in WC3 running through WINEX But even when I enable Dolby Surrond(Creative EAX2 doesn't work) I don't get surround sound... just stereo... Center and Rear channels are silent unless I press the 'matrix' button on my speakers.
True. I'll have to look at that a little more. But here's something odd... running 'emerge gaim' right now and the compiler just spat out this message:
configure: WARNING: Broken OSS API workaround enabled. See README for details.
I remember that I had to change the sound output in gaim to an external program in order to get gaim to play sound. Maybe that's the meaning of the error message: because you're not using true OSS, gaim's built-in sound player won't work. If that's the case, no big deal. Just change the sound player from built-in to something like aplay.
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