I am still trying to get my Soundblaster Live 24 bit soundcard to give me 5.1 in suse 9.3 for what seems forever...when i am in sound configuration in Yast, this is what comes up....anyone able to tell me whether this is correctable, and if so, tell me how in plain english, as i am mentally deficient when it comes to dealing with linux...

i have gone thru alsaconf and have what i believe to be the correct settings...

also when i run <speaker-test -c6 -D plug:surround51> in the shell, it works fine for all speakers...

any help or ideas, greatly appreciated

thanks for your time
aw


SB Audigy LS
The kernel module and snd-ca0106 for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrest module parameters including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.

An error has occurred.
Check you have correctly installed the ALSA package (from the series 'snd').
If the the problem persists, try passing options to the ALSA module. If your sound card still will not work, try OSS/Free or another module.
In this case, launch the YaST sound configuration module from shell using the
yast2 sound .oss
command.

Try this first:
modinfo snd-ca0106

The output should include a line like this:
depends: snd,snd-pcm,snd-page-alloc,snd-ac97-codec

The modules listed are the modules that snd-ca0106 depends, and must be loaded before snd-ca0106.

Now do 'lsmod | less' and study the list carefully. Are all the modules listed above listed by lsmod? If not, you will have to do a bit or work.

Do the modinfo command for each of the modules in the list generated when you run 'modinfo snd-ca0106'. Take careful note of the 'depends' line. In there are no depends, the module must be one of the first loaded. If there are depends, then the modules in the depends line must be loaded before the module that depends on them. Go through the list, figure the order they have to be loaded.

If lsmod shows most of them already loaded, but some missing, you can edit the last /etc/boot* script (maybe boot.local) to add lines for each necessary module, in the order you want them loaded.

Example: /sbin/modprobe snd-ac97-codec
/sbin/modprove snd-page-alloc
and so on.

Or, you could try to figure out where in /etc/modprobe.conf they should go, then create a modprobe.conf.local file to add them there (modprobe.conf is prone to be overwritten when upgrading; modprobe.conf.local is not. Look at the bottom of modprobe.conf, if it has the line: include /etc/modprobe.conf.local, it'll work. if not, use the file named there (it may vary from distro to distro).

okay i did all that,

snd depends soundcore
snd-pcm depends snd, snd-page-alloc, snd-timer
snd-page-alloc no
snd-ac97-codecs no

so by my thinkin this should be the order:

soundcore
snd
snd-page-alloc
snd-ac97-codecs
snd-timer
snd-pcm

then i added those exact lines to pico /etc/modprobe.conf.local

followed this by a reboot....alsaconf....but still only 2.1....when alsaconf was ending and about to goto the page that says that it is configured and u should try "to have fun", i saw some line errors, but they flashed by so quik i wasnt able to discern them....

after that failed attempt, i then deleted the lines from modprobeconf.local and rebooted....then i tried to do them in the order via /sbin/modprobe soundcore, but that returned FATAL:soundcore module not found, or sumthin like that....

next, i pummeled my head into a brik wall for a few minutes, and ended up with a severe laceration, and bleeding.....this was followed by a trip to the emergency ward, where being i was in korea, was followed by receiving looks of utter confusion by the hospital staff....then they saw fit to give me a bowl of kimchi and send me on my way without stitches, cause u know, kimchi cures everything!!!!

i realise u cant help me with my wounds, but hopefully u have some further suggestions on my sound modules......

thanks for your time
peace

EDIT: i went bak and tried it again, and this time the /sbin/modprobe is werkin....i also noticed i had codecs instead of codec in my post...not sure if thats how i had it in my conf.local file or not????stupid.....anyways, just rebootin now and gonna try it

ive tried the '/sbin/modprobe' command for each of the modules that need to be loaded in the correct order, but then when i run 'lsmod | less' the modules are still loading in the same order???? how do i change their order of loading????i tried adding the into .local file, but didnt change their order of loading???what do i need to do?theres is a
line: include /etc/modprobe.conf.local, in my conf file

thanks in advance for your help
aw

I am using SUSE 9.2 Pro and I had problem loading my SB live 24. I tried configuring using YAST but it wouldn't load the module so I downloaded the new kernel 2.6.15.6 and compiled using audio driver support for audigyls/live. still it wouldnt work with yast. Same error would come up. So finally i tried configuring using alsaconf command and it detected and configuring and now it's working perfecly fine. also make sure to put the volume in mixer all the way up cause by default it's muted. hopefully people who have problem can solve it.