SB 5.1 Live not working with emu10k1 alsa driver in 2.6 kernel
 

I have put in a Creative Labs SB 5.1 Live and upgraded to kernel 2.6 (my orig distro is FC1). Since 2.6 has alsa in the kernel source, I configured them as modules and wrote my /etc/modprobe.conf as follows. I have an Intel onboard sound so that's why I put in 2 sound card configuration. However I've not been able to get any soudn at all no matter what I tried.

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include /etc/modprobe.conf.dist
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.6 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias snd-card-1 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-1 snd-emu10k1
**********************************************************************************

Here's my lspci -vv output and dmesg. It looks like the SB card is being recognized, but yet in dmesg I dont' see ALSA doing anything with it... Is it a problem with IRQ? I've been struggling with this for a long time. ANy help will be very much appreciated.

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0162
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
Region 1: I/O ports at edc0 [size=64]
Region 2: Memory at febffa00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Region 3: Memory at febff900 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

02:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 8066
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (500ns min, 5000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
Region 0: I/O ports at dda0 [size=32]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

dmesg:
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.7 (Thu Sep 25 19:16:36 2003 UTC).
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ALSA device list:
#0: Intel ICH5 at 0xfebffa00, irq 17

Re: SB 5.1 Live not working with emu10k1 alsa driver in 2.6 kernel
 

does your mobo have on-board sound??
dis-able it in the BIOS if your going to use a PCI sound card.............

When I disable sound in BIOS, ALSA found no sound card. Sounds like it's never found my SB card, although lspci was showing it, and when I cat /dev/dsp0 and /dev/dsp1 I"m seeing outputs. Am I missing some config (other than modprobe.conf)? Thanks for your help!