Hello again,
By sound system, e.g. ALSA, ARTS, OSS (open sound system), I mean the sound software within your linux system or window manager/desktop. For example KDE uses ARTS.
For your sound card knoppix might have installed an OSS or an ALSA driver.
Suppose it installed an ALSA driver, then if you fire up KDE (for example) you should check in the KDE Control Centre to make sure KDE is told to use the ALSA system.
(By the way, you should tell us what desktop you are using, e.g. KDE or Gnome -- then we can tell you an easy way to do some of these things if you are unfamiliar with using the terminal.)
I'm no expert either, but I have got two different sound cards working this year -- largely from picking up tips here on LQ.
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Some checks you can make:
1.
In a terminal type the command "lsmod" (without the quotes). That means "list modules".
You should see a list of modules (think of them for now as like drivers in Windows)
I have heard of the SBLive using the "emu10k1" module. My SB Audigy uses it.
When you type lsmod, sound related module info is in lines starting with snd: e.g. here's one of mine.
snd_emu10k1 86916 2 snd_emu10k1_synth
and there should be lots of other lines also with a decent card.
Also there should probably be a line like this:
soundcore 8800 1 snd
If there is no mention of emu10k1, you could change to root and type
modprobe emu10k1
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checks you can make:
2.
A small plain text configuration file relating to sound sometimes needs to be edited manually.
It is /etc/modules.conf.
Here is mine: you can see it has something for ALSA and something for OSS.
I expect that if you have the emu10k1 module yours will look similar.
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# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
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You could post here in the forum the contents of your file /etc/modules.conf.
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checks you can make:
3.
Another small plain text configuration file relating to sound sometimes needs to be edited manually.
it is (or may be) in your home directory and is called .asoundrc.
It has the dot in front of it: that means it is hidden. You will need to turn on the showing of hidden files in whatever file browser you are using.
Here is part of mine. I seem to remember I needed this to get more functionality from my Audigy.
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pcm.emu10k1 {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.emu10k1 {
type hw
card 0
}
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Here are some edited tips from another SBLive thread:
Well let throw out random things to try.
When looking at the volume levels in alsamixer make sure there is no MM at the top of the bar. If there is hit the ' M ' key to unmute the channel.
Try using xmms and playing something -- does the equalizer show like it is playing something?
If using alsa make sure the output driver setting in xmms is set to alsa.
If not try one of the others.
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By the way, follow this other recent thread -- somebody is getting good step-by-step help for sound problems there.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=383168
Hope this helps. Stick with it.
to linux if someone could help me it would be great.
