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11-29-2002, 06:38 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Twin Cities
Distribution: RedHat 7.3
Posts: 12
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Sound Blaster LIve card on RedHat 8.0
I have a dual boot partition, and my sound card works fine for XP. But for RH 7.3 and the recently-upgraded-to 8.0, hte sound card doesnt work. Running sndconfig it seems to find it, anyway it brings up the right name for the driver - EMU10K1 - but I get no sound during the test.
Anybuddy have a good resource page for troubleshooting this, or setting it up correctly?
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11-29-2002, 08:01 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Distribution: Redhat v8.0 (soon to be Fedora? or maybe I will just go back to Slackware)
Posts: 857
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I don't have v8.0, but all versions of 6.x and 7.x have worked fine for me.
Try booting into runlevel 3, with no Xwindows running, and running sndconfig, then go back to runlevel 5.
-K.
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11-30-2002, 05:42 AM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Germany
Distribution: RedHat & SuSE
Posts: 106
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Re: Sound Blaster LIve card on RedHat 8.0
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Originally posted by notoneword
I have a dual boot partition, and my sound card works fine for XP. But for RH 7.3 and the recently-upgraded-to 8.0, hte sound card doesnt work. Running sndconfig it seems to find it, anyway it brings up the right name for the driver - EMU10K1 - but I get no sound during the test.
Anybuddy have a good resource page for troubleshooting this, or setting it up correctly?
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I dual boot redhat 8 and XP and I use a Sound Blaster Live!. I can attest that it works great in this situation.
Your problem must be that the card is misconfigured somehow in redhat... If I go to "system settings -> Soundcard detection" I see that my soundcard is detected as:
Vendor: Creative Labs
Model: SB Live! EMU10k1
Module: EMU10k1
Clicking on the "test sound" button produces a sound of a concert guitar. It's a bit quiet so you may have to turn up your speakers to hear it.
You do have the option to do a fresh install of redhat 8 which should configure your sound card correctly (unless there is a more serious problem with your system i.e. crappy mobo.) . Maybe someone else has a less destructive suggestion, but if you have no data or settings to lose then this might be the easiest option.
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11-30-2002, 08:00 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Durham, England
Distribution: Fedora Core 4
Posts: 1,565
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Make sure the volume (in Linux) is not set to zero, some drivers start the sound muted by default, I have no idea why
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11-30-2002, 10:04 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Twin Cities
Distribution: RedHat 7.3
Posts: 12
Original Poster
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Soundcard detection brings up the same info as yours, but I never hear the test sound. I made sure the volume wasnt muted, or at zero.
I would rather not reinstall 8.0 clean, but may have to. What is "crappy mobo"??? The card does work fine for the windows partition.
Can anybuddy suggest a good resource for double-checking the configuration of a sound card? Is there a .conf file somewhere that I need to check?
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11-30-2002, 08:03 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Germany
Distribution: RedHat & SuSE
Posts: 106
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Quote:
Originally posted by notoneword
What is "crappy mobo"??? The card does work fine for the windows partition.
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That would be a motherboard that doesn't do PCI to specification, or shares IRQs that should be dedicated to CPU tasks. In general the newer the motherboard the better. Each generation seems to have fixed oversights from the series before it.
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12-01-2002, 06:09 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Leeds, UK
Distribution: Redhat 8.0
Posts: 15
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It does work...
Hey,
I just had the same problem as you.. I finally got it working. Firstly I opened a terminal (As root)...
modprobe emu10k1 (You might hear a click on your speakers)
cd /dev
ls -al ds*
This on my system returned
dsp
dsp0
dsp1
dsp2
dsp3
dsp4
dsp was linked to dsp0..
I then tried..
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp1
(If this works.. there will be a lot of static)
Press CTRL+C to get out of it.
then type:
ln -sf /dev/dsp1 /dev/dsp
Then open up the soundcard detection and try playing the sound. If this doesn't work then the drivers aren't installed properly I would say. If you need some help, feel free to e-mail me.. I will see if I can help you out further.
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12-01-2002, 10:00 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Twin Cities
Distribution: RedHat 7.3
Posts: 12
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Wow, maybe I have bigger problems than I thought. I got command not found when I tried to run modprobe. So I gave it an explicit path - i.e. /sbin/modprobe - and didnt get the click.
All I had in my /dev directory was dsp, dsp1 and dsp56.
I tried the 'cat /dev/urandom..' step but didnt get any static, created the link, but sndconfig had same results as before.
Cheers for the tips though!
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12-01-2002, 10:49 AM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Distribution: Redhat v8.0 (soon to be Fedora? or maybe I will just go back to Slackware)
Posts: 857
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dude... are you logged in as "root"?
-K.
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12-01-2002, 11:21 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Twin Cities
Distribution: RedHat 7.3
Posts: 12
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dood, indeed I am...
for some reason, /sbin (where I found modprobe) was not in root's path.
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12-17-2002, 10:55 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Twin Cities
Distribution: RedHat 7.3
Posts: 12
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Seems this is a problem with my Gateway box. Apparently the OEM card uses the same port(?) for analog and digitial sounds, which the linux driver does not support. So I get beeps (analog) when I get mail, but no tunes (digital). ::sigh::
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12-18-2002, 07:06 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 5
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Bios Option May work
I went into the Bios and turned the option for Plug-N-Play OS to NO. Once I rebooted, then then Linux saw my card and ran beautifully.
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12-22-2002, 11:53 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 14
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im currently running redhat 8.0 and am also having the same problem. however i have found that when in root my sound works fine and also if i log into kde instead of gnome and then go to the kde control center<sound<sound server....and change a setting then hit aply i will hear all those little guitar sounds over and over and over again. then when i colse it will work fine..but when i restart same problem again and again....grrrrrr oh and im runnin and amd1.7 with a new asus board and a pci soundblaster 128 so its not old hardware......anyway i hope maybe someone has an idea....Cg
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12-23-2002, 12:24 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 14
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ok not sure if anyone cares anymore but i think i have cured atleast my own problem...lol well the current one atleast... i have been hackin away at this and i tried turning the arts sound server in kde control center to not start on start up and it seems to have cured the problem. just figured id post i hope it helps someone else...of to find my next challenge....Cg
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12-23-2002, 02:49 AM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2002
Location: Kaysville, UT USA
Distribution: Red Hat Linux, Slackware
Posts: 242
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Re: Bios Option May work
Quote:
Originally posted by orakin
I went into the Bios and turned the option for Plug-N-Play OS to NO. Once I rebooted, then then Linux saw my card and ran beautifully.
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lol, too bad I didn't get here sooner, I would have suggested the same thing, that's what I had to do to get it to work on my box.
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