Hey there folks,
i have searched these forums pillar to post but cant seem to find an answer to this one.

i just installed debian sarge via the net for a friend of mine and he just bought a soundblaster sound card from a computer dealer in town.

the sound card package read Soundblaster Live 5.1 24bit
earlier i had installed Ubuntu but gave it up to go with just debian because i wanted him to run xfce4 instead of gnome for speed sake.

heres the deal, the device manager lists the hardware as a
soundblaster audigy ls. ok, that is a little weird. maybe they sold him the wrong OEM card or something.

i have the kernel-image 2.6.7 installed and i did apt for the alsa modules 1.07, alsa-utils, alsa-base etc....

when i ran alsaconf, it couldnt find the card.
i did a modprobe snd_emu10k and it loaded a bunch of snd modules.
but i couldnt get it to work. i changed permissions for /dev/dsp. etc..

alsamixer says that there is no such device.

modprobe audigyls failed too.

anybody have a clue on this one ?

What does lspci -v say about the card? What is the current status of lsmod?
good luck.

Sorry it took so long to get back. here are some screenshots of my term window with lsmod and lspci because i dont know how to copy and paste from a terminal (dont run gnome or kde)
so here you go.


lsmod

lspci

Both of the links give a 404 error. Please notify us when they are back up.
good luck.

I just returned a sb live card because of similar situation. went back to pci128. this is a ubuntu system