Sound Blaster HELP! Please

Joeann · 08-16-2006, 07:35 PM

Please help me! I do not know anything about computers.
My friend "partitioned" my hard drive for both windows and Linux.... But has skipped town.

My computer did not have "sound", so my 11 year old son installed Sound Blaster 5.1 audigy SE for me. It works great on windows but he only gets a static sound on Linux. What do we do? Please help us!

thank you, thank you, thank you.
Jo

Caeda · 08-16-2006, 07:40 PM

Most likely you just re-install linux and it'll detect the card. Other than that your at least going to have to tell us what distro your using.

WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot · 08-19-2006, 06:33 PM

shouldnt mandariva detect it automatically upon bootup ? Fedora has kudzu that can start up newly installed hardware automatically after a boot. thats what i did for my Audigy and its being detected ( but i still cant get the darn thing to work for some reason :s )

ciotog · 08-20-2006, 01:14 AM

Here are instructions for getting your particular card to work:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...?module=ca0106

Although it's a little complicated.

WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot · 08-20-2006, 03:35 PM

got it working. apparently there is some or the other switch in the also switches/controls that is turned off/on. in my case the headphone jack was turned on so it wasnt outputting to my external speakers.

so what i suggest is open your sound settings ( alsamixer was of no use to me, it dint show these options so i used gnomes gui instead ) and make sure everything there is not muted and that the headphone jack is turned off. you have no reason to re-install linux when you add new hardware, thast windoze styled thinking.