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Old 03-11-2003, 09:22 AM   #1
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Soundblaster Live! not working(or disbled?) in RH8?


I was reinstalling RH8 on a old hard drive I just installed on my system and the sound card wouldn't work. It said there is not soundcard device or something like that. I have a Soundblaster live 5.1 and in the Redhat menu under system settings I went to soundcard detection and it said:
Vender: Creative
Model:SB Live! EMU10K1
Module: Disabled
So it seems to see it but its disabled?
I noticed when shutting down linux when it trys to shut down sound service or whatever it says "Cannot Locate Module Sound Service 0-0"
and of corse for that it says failed beside it.
Before when I had RH8 just installed on a partition not another hard drive it worked fine with the sound card. The soundcard is also working fine because I can use it in windows. I do have a built in soundcard aswell but that built in soundcard is disabled in the bios(I double checked that as well).
In Control center under Information>sound , its says "Sorry,No Information About Soundcard".
Anyone have any idea what the problem is and how to fix it?
thx
BTW how do you run sndconfig in RH8?
I tried unplugging the sndcard and then going into linux then shutting down and replugging it in. But that didn't even do anything it just started up as normal. When it was unplugged tho the soundcard detection program said there was no card and it went back to reconizing the card when I plugged it in again but it still says module:disabled and I still have no sound.
When I type sndconfig in the RH8 termanal in root it says command not found or something like that(i'am not in linux right now s I don't fully remember what it said but thats the jist of it).

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Old 03-11-2003, 01:40 PM   #2
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I just tryed to reinstall linux and after I did I still had theexact same problem. Also I forgot to mention that when loading it gives me an error:
"Error While Initializing The Sound Driver."
"Device /dev/dsp can't be opened(no such device)"
"The Sound Server will continue , using the null output device."
Can someone plz help me I would really like to get sound working today
thx
 
Old 03-11-2003, 01:50 PM   #3
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Lesse, the module for the card shoudl be:

/sbin/modprobe emu10k1

See if that modprobes without errors, sound should be up if so... weird that sndconfig is missing.

Cheers,

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Old 03-11-2003, 02:47 PM   #4
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well I did that and it showed no errors.
After I noticed in the sounddetection program that it doesn't say disabled anymore and sure enough the test sound button works. SO the card is now owrking but there is one more problem, the audio player (XMMS) won't play anything at all. When I try to add files to the playlist it doesn't add them, when I try to play a shoutcast stream it doesn't play them. Whats going on with XMMS?
 
Old 03-11-2003, 03:54 PM   #5
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Dunno... Highlight xmms so its the active window and hit ctrl+p, that'll display the plug-in window, you should have:

MPEG Layer 1/2/3/ Player 1.x.x

Listed... there's another to take shoutcast streams, most of this stuff is default, makes me wonder why its not onboard, check over at www.xmms.org, oh crap I just looked it up and found out why check out xmms's page, it was redhat getting jumpy about the patent issue.

Cheers,

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Old 03-11-2003, 03:57 PM   #6
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thx for all your help
 
Old 03-11-2003, 04:15 PM   #7
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Oh, I just remembered that it might not reload the module when you reboot because redhat is often stupid like that. First off... I realized sndconfig is probably there, you just su'ed to become root so you kept the same path that was the initial user. You might want to try:

/sbin/sndconfig

or

/usr/sbin/sndconfig

I can't remember where they put that thing. Just hammering in the module won't configure RH to load it next time, sndconfig should hack up /etc/modules.conf properly.

Cheers,

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Old 03-11-2003, 04:23 PM   #8
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hehe I was just about to post about that
I tryed the paths you said for sndconfig and nothing I get "No Such File Or Directry"
Before I searched using the find program and I got it to search the whole linux drive for sndconfig and it found nothing.
Also the last 2 times redhat froze at loading the windows program manager and the thrid time I restarted it worked. don't know if that has any signifigence.
any idea on what to do about the sndconfig?
Maybe it is on my system somewhere and the find file program just didn't find it cuz of typing it in wrong or something?

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Old 03-11-2003, 04:42 PM   #9
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welp I got xmms working now.
Now I just need to get it so that that command that you said is executed when linux starts up. I'am guessing thats gonna be abit harder am I right?
 
Old 03-11-2003, 04:47 PM   #10
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Ahh... ignore it: Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add the line:

/sbin/modprobe emu10k1

The freezing... gah, lots of problems, poke through /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages, I think those are the RH logs... see what got hiccuped when it froze, offhand it looks like a X issue, what's your vid card?

Cheers,

Finegan
 
Old 03-11-2003, 05:05 PM   #11
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I have a geforce 2 MX 200.
BTW could I add "xgamma -gamma 2.5" to the file you told me to add the other command to ? And would the xgamma work at start up as well?
BTW should I edit this file in text mode or is graphical mode fine to edit it in?
 
Old 03-11-2003, 06:28 PM   #12
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rc.local gets invoked last on all multi-user runlevels, for instance, you'll find it under /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99local (I think, I'm a slackware user so I'm a little rusty at init.d sysV), S means start, and the 2 digit number is priority, therefore the RedHat runlevel that starts X, runlevel 5, /etc/rc.d/rc5.d will have X before rc.local, so if xgamma is something that can be run after X is initially started, then yes... that should be fine. If X has to be completely up for it to start, the command should get queued right until X is up... If its an argument to x starting, you might just want to add it to a .xinitrc file on a per user basis... that's probably the simplest.

The geforce 2 is a pretty basic card, are you using the Nvidia drivers, or just vanilla X?

oh, you can edit rc.local anyway you want, anything mistyped will just hiccup a "command not found" during init, and of course you'll have to either reboot, change runlevels, or simply invoke the script:

/etc/rc.d/rc.local

as root, from the command line, in order to get it to take effect.

Cheers,

Finegan
 
Old 03-11-2003, 06:43 PM   #13
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I'am just using vanilla X for geforce 2.
I have used multiple linux os's to try them and every single one would not work no matter what with nvidias drivers. Even building the nvidia drivers myself didn't work (all it did is make X not work).
I don't plan on using linux for games so I just said forget about it. I talked to multiple people about my problem and none of them could find any way to get the nvidia drivers to work right on my system(for some reason my system is jynxed cuz on all the linux os's I tryed it had the same errors).
Could you tell me exacly how to add the xgamma command to the per user basis file?(and where the file is located). I tryed adding xgamma to the file I put the other command in and it seems the command didn't work as nothing is brighter when I restarted :P
My soundcard problem is now gone after adding that command you mentioned into that file
again thx all your help is greatly appreciated.
 
Old 03-11-2003, 07:18 PM   #14
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I just realized your default runlevel is probably 5, and you're using a display manager... I've never monkeyed with one of those. Basically you want to modify whatever startup script the display manager uses to also change the gamma settings of your monitor... so, start a new thread, probably in Software. Beats me, I start at console and startx if I need it, so I just use /home/bob/.xinitrc a lot, but that gets ignored by gdm and xdm, so new thread!

I've also never owned a Nvidia card...

Cheers,

Finegan
 
Old 03-11-2003, 07:27 PM   #15
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