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I am a Linux newbie running Fedora Core 3 (kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC3) on a dual-boot (with Windows XP) Dell Pentium 4 machine. My Fedora install went great, except for one problem: my soundcard does not work. It is Creative Soundblaster Live! card that came shipped with the computer. I have never had any problems with it in Windows XP.

Searching the internet has yielded little help; most people who have no sound seem to just have their alsamixer sound levels down.

When I run system-config-soundcard it detects a Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X with module EMU10k1, which looks right, (according to the documentation at alsa-project.org). When I click the Play Sound button, I hear nothing.

When I try to run alsamixer, I get:

Code:

[root@localhost sbin]# /usr/bin/alsamixer

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

I read a suggestion that I run alsactl restore,

Code:

[root@localhost sbin]# /sbin/alsactl restore

./alsactl: load_state:1134: No soundcards found...

When I run the Gnome Volume Control, it tells me:

Code:

Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found

Any suggestions? From reading, it seems that a common misconception is that the SB LIve! Value card is based on the EMU10k1 chipset, when it is in fact the EMU10k2 chipset. But either way, it seems that it should be supported by the current ALSA drivers. I have updated all of my packages via upd2date, but that hasn't helped.

I have included the output of lspci and lsmod below. Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide.

Code:

[root@localhost sbin]# ./lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)

02:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X

02:01.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] Input device controller

02:02.0 Communication controller: Conexant: Unknown device 2702 (rev 01)

02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

Code:

[root@localhost sbin]# /sbin/lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by

parport_pc            28421  1

lp                    12489  0

parport                40201  2 parport_pc,lp

autofs4                26181  0

sunrpc                164485  1

ipt_REJECT              7105  1

ipt_state              1857  5

ip_conntrack          40601  1 ipt_state

iptable_filter          2881  1

ip_tables              19777  3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter

vfat                  13505  2

fat                    43229  1 vfat

dm_mod                59221  0

video                  15813  0

button                  6609  0

battery                9285  0

ac                      4805  0

md5                    4161  1

ipv6                  259201  10

uhci_hcd              33497  0

ehci_hcd              39501  0

hw_random              6101  0

i2c_i801                8653  0

i2c_core              21953  1 i2c_i801

emu10k1_gp              3649  0

gameport                5057  1 emu10k1_gp

snd_intel8x0          34049  0

snd_emu10k1          110149  0

snd_rawmidi            28641  1 snd_emu10k1

snd_seq_device          8781  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi

snd_ac97_codec        71097  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1

snd_pcm_oss            51953  0

snd_mixer_oss          18241  1 snd_pcm_oss

snd_pcm                99657  4 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss

snd_timer              33093  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm

snd_page_alloc          9669  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm

snd_util_mem            4801  1 snd_emu10k1

snd_hwdep              9185  1 snd_emu10k1

snd                    56741  10 snd_intel8x0,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep

soundcore              10785  1 snd

e100                  46401  0

mii                    4929  1 e100

floppy                64753  0

ext3                  131145  1

jbd                    82777  1 ext3

ata_piix                9285  0

libata                46789  1 ata_piix

sd_mod                19265  0

scsi_mod              139945  2 libata,sd_mod