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Hi I have just recently installed SuSE 9.1 personal on a Dell Dimension 4600. I have no sound on this machine and have not been able to figure out how to fix it. If someone knows how to get sound on this machine I would appreiciate it. I booted into windows and all that I was able to find on the sound card was that it was a Creative SB Live. Series (WDM) this is directly from the device manager. Is there a driver that i have to get for this sound card that will work for it under linux? Thanks in advance for all of the help.
The EMU101K drivers should do it. They do for me and I have the same card.
A few years ago I had no sound and found that all my settings were set to zero (took me 2 weeks to work that out), check your mixer settings, sometimes its the most simple things. Most modern distros would have detected the soundcard. I recently used suse and it has the very nice KAmix, but that sets my sounds to zero.
You are using suse, I assume you have KDE, the infocenter should gave you info on what it has found. Or even try running a mixer to see what the settings are.
Thank you for the reply the sound card has been detected properly but it is not running is there something that I need to do to get the card up and running. When I get into the sound card configuration suse tells me that "the number of currently running cards does not match the number of configured cards in your configuration. Do you want to restart the sound card?" Do you know what this error message is. If you could help me a bit more I would really appreciate it.
I don't have the answer but I have the same problem. I have no sound when I boot up. I can however uninstall the sound card, then reinstall the sound card and it works fine until I reboot. I'm using Suse 9.2 and its a soundblaster live card. Any help would be appreciated.
I don't have the answer but I have the same problem. I have no sound when I boot up. I can however uninstall the sound card, then reinstall the sound card and it works fine until I reboot. I'm using Suse 9.2 and its a soundblaster live card. Any help would be appreciated.
Is the alsasound service set to run on boot?
After booting, try "service alsasound start" if sound works after that, its probably the aboves. Set it to start at boot with chkconfig.
Ok, I turned on the Alsasound to start on boot but there was no change. Same problem exists. No sound at boot but it does recognize the card. If I unstall the soundblaster device then reinstall it sound works fine.
Here is a clue that someone might be able to figure out for me as to why it won't start at boot.
I tried to go to volume monitor and it said "cannot run sound daemon. Pleas run 'esd' at command prompt".
I ran esd at shell prompt and got:
"ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1172snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: No suchdevice"
Now, if I do like I did before and uninstall then reinstall the soundblaster device, then run esd again I get:
"esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket
/tmp/.esd/socket
This socket already exists indicating esd is already running.
Exiting..."
.....and everything is fine. It looks to me like it has something to do with the Alsasound but I'm stuck. If anyone can figure out this riddle pls do!!! Thanks in advance.
Hi, im having some problems with my sound card aswell, from time to time the sound becomes scratchy, like if it came out of a tin can but when i run the soundcard detection utility it seems to get fixed. maybe i should get some drivers, any ideas??
I'm running Fedora Core 3 on a Toshiba Sattelite Laptop with kernel 2.6.10 i compiled myself.
varrojo, run alsamixer and lower the pcm volume, also muthe the cd volume and see if it helps.
Bakes, after you run "service alsasound start", run "alsamixer" and unmute the master and pcm volumes, alsa when started from a not running stage mutes the volume by default.
Plzz post back.
The alsamixer that I have is QaMix. Both the Master and pcm volumes are unmuted. I unmuted everything else just in case. Perhaps I am not starting the "service alsasound start" correctly. When I reinstall the device it works fine though. Also, when I try to play a mp3 after I boot up realplayer says "cannot open audio device, another application may be using it". My other players just won't play or say anything(until I reinstall the soundblaster). I'm using Suse 9.2. I see from the alsa project web page I do not have the updated driver. I'm at 1.6 something and they are at 1.9 something or other. Should I work on updating that first?
I'm sorta new to linux so it takes me a bit to install stuff unless its an rpm. Well, I got some .gz things to work too...haha. I'm getting there though.
ok...heres another problem I just noticed that might be a clue. When I boot up and run QaMix, it says Soundcard is a USB Sound.
When I uninstall/reinstall SBLive QaMix then says EMU10K1 (which its upposed to say I think) and everything works. I have disabled onboard sound in bios. Any ideas what its looking at as USB Sound or how to disable it?
Ok, after you've booted your system and logged in with X.
Open a console and run "service alsasound restart", after that unmute the volumes if they're muted.
Open up a audio player applications, eg realplayer. Go to the settings or options or preference whatever term real player uses, and look for the alsa cofiguration there, its probably on the output section. Instead of the default, change the Audio Device to ".......hw:0,1". Apply , OK and see if sound works.
I don't use audio player, so I'm not sure about its menus and configurations but you should get it.
If you have xmms, I can say the exact place to configure.
Also, run "lsmod" after you've restarted the alsa service and post the output here.
Plzz post back.
In between posts there I tried something and it seems to have worked....
...kinda
The usb sound made me think....if I disable all usb devices in bios it might work. Well, it did. I booted up and walla!!! all sounds were working. Of course that just opens a new can of worms cuz I would like to be able to plug things into USB ports...haha
Thanks Evil_empire for your help....some combination of everything we've done so far has it working. Any ideas on the USB thing?
If anyone has had close to the same problem, the last thing I figured out was a conflict with my USB camera. It had sound capture capabilities and for whatever reason it was being loaded instead of my sound card. It kept my AC97 onboard sound as well as my Soundblaster Live from working properly. Once I disconnected the USB camera and rebooted everything has been working fine. There might be a way to reconfigure the camera to get it working as well but that will have to be another day. I'm just glad my sound is working
Thanks for posting evil_empire, I tried lowering the PCM volume using alsamixer and am waiting to see if the sound gets scratchy again.
What i've noticed is that my apps don't seem to be able to share the sound driver, fot instance when i run xmms i cannot hear the Gaim's sounds, then when xmms stops playing, i get all the sounds Gaim generated one after another, as if they where queueing to come out. With some others applications it's worse, for instance thunder bird, in which when they can't play a sound they make the screen tilt (screen turns to black for half a sec or so), maybe it's something with Gnome?
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