I felt like i have been rip-off by Creative. I pledge not to buy their product again.

I got myself into trouble without checking support for Audigy LS. I was assuming, since the kernel support Audigy, Audigy LS should be included. When I got the card this morning, plug-in the machine I am building and wah lah, no sound. lsmod, no emu10k1 modules
being loaded, modprobe emu10k1, loaded alright, no sound still. Darn.

And the darn card I got is an "Asian Special Edition" Whatever that means, all the darn manual comes in all other language accept for English, how do expect me to read it???

Anyhow, would just like to know anybody successfully installed and use the BETA drivers from http://www.alsa-project.org/~james/alsa-driver

What is ultimately important for me are :

1. line-in must work flawlessly, the machine is for recording. (rip-off card)
2. line-out works without problem, I want to hear what is being recorded, playback.

That's all I need. If you guys have tried it, just let me know. I don't want to spend hours on it and get shit out of creative again.

Hmm looks like nobody is interested or tried it out. Looks like I got to be the speciment.
Will report my findings in a few hours time.

I followed the instructions here :
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaCVS

It is not complete yet.

The first thing I tried was to play a VCD, sound was good.

The second thing I tried was Line-In, can't get no where. Audacity doesn't work well with it.

The main thing is, the Volume control (alsamixer, is very confusing, a lot of controls in there, some doesn't budge, some does with no effect ( I know I don't have full 5.1 speakers).

Will give it another go at recording using other software, however, I can't here any sound from the Line-In. Just to make sure I cover all grounds ( I can think off) I will still give it another go. If not, on-board sound that is.

I have the exact same sound card and I have never gotten it to work with any driver. I know there is 1 driver buy you have to pay for it. There is a trial of the driver and I installed it but I still didn't get sound. I have tried everything short of playing with the kernel to get it to work and it won't work. I hate sitting heere without sound.

I went to that website where u said you got sound from and installed it but I still don't have sound. maybe i have to configure something after I install it all? How do I go about doing that?

Hey man, u around? I really need help with this. If I can get sound for linux then I have no need for windows.

well, in a term window, what is the output of
??

-bash: lspci: command not found




It doesn't work

You need to be login as root to run lspci command.

As for getting sound with AudigyLS. Go to the website I pointed above, and follow exactly the instructions there.

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaCVS

Just a note at the cvs part, you need to run the first cvs command on the console, and then hit enter when it ask you for password, then run the second cvs command. If you still can't get it I'll post it at my website.

Ok let me try to make it easier to understand and customise it for AudigyLS
I would suggest doing all this as root.


Create a new directory with nothing in it and move into it: -
Download the cvs of alsa: - 4. ( Just press ENTER when asked for the password )#Check that you have everything ok.
#type "ls" then ENTER.
#You should get this: -
#alsa-driver alsa-kernel alsa-lib alsa-utils (directories)

Start by compiling the kernel modules, so go into the alsa-driver directory: -#Try to find out which card module you will need.
#./cvscompile --help
#and look at the --with-cards list and try and find yours.
#For me it is emu10k1 (for Audigy 2) and usb-audio (usb based sound card.)That should have compiled your alsa-drivers. To install them: -Only if you are not using the devfs (device file system) remember to do "snddevices" now.
snddevices #if you are not running 2.6.* kernel

Now compile and install the rest of alsa.
After rebooting (or you can just /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa) you have to adjust the mixer volume,
It doesn't have a master volume, and it has a long long list of control, Go to almost the end, there are analog front/back/etc. those are the control for your Sound volume. Just play around with the alsamixer until you get sound. :) Then give yourself a pat at the back.

K thanks for the long explanation down there. I am going to try it out and let you know how it worked out. Thanks

Ok I did exactly what you said up there but when I reboot and I do /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa Nothing happens. If I do alsamixer, it says no soundcard detected. I don't know how to change the sound as you said in the last paragraph because I don't see anywhere to change settings.

Could you help me a bit more please?

1 more thing I did LSPCI and this is the output

Can you post your lsmod as well?
Urr, before you run the rc.alsa script, you have to run alsaconf.

alsamixer DOES not look for your sound-card and load the modules,
You got to alsaconf to get it detected and alsaconf will add the necessary line into /etc/modules.conf

^^^

thats lsmod

I ran alsaconf and it detected the ls driver and then it asked if I wanted to configure it. I said yes and then it said it was ready to use. Then I did /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa and got this

so I ran alsamixer and got this

what other mixer could I use to unmute the soundcard and play with the sounds?

any other help?

Please

thanks