please, somebody help me get my soundcard working
 

I am using a SB Audigy2

Install it.

Seriously, if you need assistance, we're happy to: if you're willing to give us details on the problem.

cool
 

i uninstalled the sb audigy because i read it is not supported. but here it goes with the onboard soundcard i've got.

[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (re v 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 0 2)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 A udio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 26629 1
lp 12077 0
parport 37001 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 23493 0
sunrpc 156325 1
ipt_REJECT 6593 1
ipt_state 1857 6
ip_conntrack 40309 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 3521 1
ip_tables 16321 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
video 15813 0
button 6609 0
battery 9285 0
ac 4805 0
usblp 12225 0
joydev 9217 0
md5 4033 1
ipv6 231681 8
uhci_hcd 31449 0
ehci_hcd 32585 0
hw_random 5845 0
i2c_i801 8141 0
i2c_core 20801 1 i2c_i801
snd_intel8x0 33249 2
snd_emu10k1 92997 0
snd_rawmidi 25953 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_device 8525 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 67489 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm_oss 47989 0
snd_mixer_oss 17089 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 93001 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_ oss
snd_timer 29125 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9541 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4801 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 8901 1 snd_emu10k1
snd 52645 12 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_de vice,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore 10017 2 snd
e100 39873 0
mii 4673 1 e100
floppy 57841 0
dm_snapshot 16901 0
dm_zero 2497 0
dm_mirror 23213 2
ext3 116297 2
jbd 69977 1 ext3
dm_mod 55637 6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ata_piix 8517 2
libata 41285 1 ata_piix
sd_mod 17216 3
scsi_mod 121793 2 libata,sd_mod
[root@localhost ~]#

soundcard detection tool works fine
 

the soundcard detection tool plays the sound. but i can't play my cds. bet you've never heard that one before. lol...seriously, it is very frustrating. i have worked through enough linux growing pains that i know i can set the stuff up if i stick to it and get help. so thanks for replying to my post.

Just a thought: You need a wire from the soundcard to the CDROM drive to play CDs.

Don't even get any sound
 

I am using a Creative Audigy 2 NX, which is USB. I just installed a fresh copy of Fedora Core 3, and I don't get any sound. It is detected, but when I click the 'test sound' button I don't get anything. There is a red light that comes on, on the unit, and it normally goes off when I boot into Windows, but it stays red when I boot into Linux (it's also meant to go red when you mute it). I'm very new to Linux, and I don't even know how to switch between ALSA and the other sound card drivers (I know ALSA supports the Audigy 2 NX), so I'm wondering if Linux is not using the ALSA drivers. I've heard many people talking about getting wrong sampling rates, but I'd like just to get some sound first. If anybody can shed some light as to how to get my sound working, I'd be very grateful.



Regards, BuckRogers01 ;)

worked like a charm
 

worked like a charm with the wire. i thought it didn't need that b/c Micro$oft doesn't
Thanx all

BuckRogers01: You probably should've started a new thread for this, but most likely you just haven't unmuted the system. By default, alsa mutes the sound card. Use amix to fix this.

Barleykorn: glad you got it working. The biggest advantage of the wire from the cd-rom drive to the sound card is it takes no ram/cpu/etc to play audio. (Well, almost none. It just sends commands to the cd-rom and sound card, which take it from there.)

Windows uses digital playback by default. Linux most apps use analog playback. To enable (digital without the wire) open xmms go to preferences and cd playback and change to digital. I prefer alsamixer to amixer.

sorry about hijacking the thread, I've started a new one (just about to at least). I think the channels were already unmuted