Yet Another Sound Blaster Live Thread...
 

Well folks, I have been reading threads about my new sound card for what seems like eternity. The phrase, "Sound Blaster Live" is actually burned into my retinas, very annoying. Anyhow....
None of the threads seemed to be having the exact problem I was. I just got a Sound Blaster Live sound card (CT4830) and I cant get it to work for the life of me. I ran alsaconf as root, and it tricked me really badly, I thought it was going to work. It said it found the SB Live and wanted to use the emu10k1 driver for it. Excellent! I let it do just that. Asked me if I wanted it to configure /etc/modules conf, so I let it. Told me the sound card was configured and to use a mixer to change the levels, so I ran alsamixer and adjusted everything as I saw fit. Started up xmms, not one peep. I cannot figure it out for the life of me. Any help will be greatly appreciated and I would be delighted to provide any more necessary information. Thanks!

Well let throw out random things to try.
When use the command /sbin/lsmod does it list emu10k1 module?
If not as root run the command ' modprobe emu10k1 '.
Is this the only soundcard installed? Not an onboard sound card is there?
If there is and onboard try to disable in the bios.
Post the contents on /etc/modules.conf.
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.
Speakers plugged in the correct port?
Speakers turned on?
When using xmms and playing something does the equalizer show like it is playing something.
Are you using alsa?
If using alsa make sure the output driver in xmms is set to alsa.
If not try one of the others.

If I think of anymore ideas I will post.
Brian1

Fantastic. All it needed was for the onboard to be disabled, good call. For all who have a M7VIQ Motherboard and want to use a Sound Blaster Live! under Slackware 10.0 you need to disable the onbard soundcard. Thanks mate.