I'm running kernel 2.6.8-1-k7 using Debian on the testing branch.

I just bought a Soundblaster Audigy 2 Value card because my SB Live! Value that was 6 years old finally bit the dust. I read the Audigy 2 cards were compatible with Alsa and 2.6.x kernels but now I'm reading conflicting information that Audigy 2 Value cards (not Audigy 2 ZS Value, just Audigy 2 Value) may not be compatible!? Well, mine isn't working. lspci -v shows this:

0000:00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs: Unknown device 0008
Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 9800 [disabled] [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

That obviously doesn't look good.

alsactl says it can't start my sound card because it can't find any soundcards, though all my alsa modules load fine:

Rocky:/home/mike# lsmod
Module Size Used by
agpgart 34536 0
nvidia 4821204 12
binfmt_misc 11656 1
snd_emu10k1 98312 0
snd_rawmidi 25380 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm_oss 54312 0
snd_mixer_oss 19904 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 97480 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25540 1 snd_pcm
snd_seq_device 8264 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 69572 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_page_alloc 11720 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4608 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 9476 1 snd_emu10k1
snd 57380 10 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,sn d_util_mem,snd_hwdep
soundcore 10400 1 snd


Anyone have any ideas? Do I have to do something special to get an Audigy 2 Value working? Please tell me I didn't just waste $60 for nothing!

Mike