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I also have the SB Live and the module I load for it is snd-emu10k1
You might have to comment out the module you are loading or blacklist it in hotplug.
Right so not to seem too stupid but what is required to load the module or blacklist hotplug?
And now for a incredibly stupid question.
In lilo.conf, the line about timeout =, it is the countdown for the bootloader isn't it?
Right, so why the isn't my computer counting down from 100 tenths of a seconds as it is the value I typed in for it, and not from 1200 tenths of a second?
"As I said I have a SBLive 5.1 soundcard but the card that alsamixer says I have is
a Brooktree Bt878, with the chip Bt87x."
I too have an SB live & a bt878 card. At one point I had to physically take out the
bt878 card becuase alsa thought my bt878 card was the primary sound device
and the SBlive was a secondary sound device (and it wasn't working).
If your sound is not working yet, I would physically remove the bt878, and then run:
alsaconfig
alsamixer
alsactl store
(to setup the SBlive).
Then make sure the sound works. If it does (which it should), shutdown, and then
put the bt878 card in. I'm sure there is a way to configure alsa to switch device 1
and 2, but I couldn't find it.
(p.s. - there is a switch you can add to the alsaconfig command to setup the 2nd device,
but I can't remember it - it really didn't help me anyway.)
Oh, by the way at startup it now says something like this also
Loading ALSA kernel modules.
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd-emu10k1.o.gz: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd-emu10k1.o.gz: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module
parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd-emu10k1.o.gz: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd-emu10k1.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd-emu10k1.o.gz: insmod snd-emu10k1 failed
Then I have run into another problem I can't explain at all. When I sent my last post I was goig to shut down the computer. So when I was back in the terminal there was 5-6 lines with this.
And the mouse couldn't be moved in any sensible way. It was on the top most line of the page copy-pasting sections at random. And the only thing I had done under that session was that I had used the web to write the previous post and copy-paste the text which the computer gave me when I ran alsaconf and alsamixer from a file using gedit.
I tried to reboot a couple of times to see if it would go away but it seems to be there every time now I log out from kde.
Originally posted by rutty I think even if you chose the IMPS/2 option during the install it doesn't set this up properly in xorg.conf. Maybe it's an install bug.
if I'm correct slack doesn't configure X at all during the install... leaving you to do it manually
don't know if you got sound yet, but this is what always works on slack for me:
$: alsamixer
$: su
#: alsactl store
When you go into alsamixer press 'm' to unmute the master volume, and then turn it up with the arrow keys, hit esc and su and alsactl store to keep the settings.
You are still loading OSS drivers which are preventing alsa to load. So check the /etc/rc.d/rc.modules script if the emu10k1 module is loaded there and if so, comment the line. Also check the /etc/hotplug/blacklist to be sure the emu10k1 is uncommented. If you are using hotplug that will prevent the driver from being loaded automaticly by the hotplug script during boot.
Yes I can finally hear sounds now. Thank you everybody. But if you still have some patience I still have some minor problems.
Ok so now the sound comes from the usual line-out or what ever it is called butIi would like to use the digital-out plug, because I have a amplifier and 5.1 speaker system connected to it. So the question is where do I change this?
Also of some reason there seems to be a ~1second delay in the sound.
And then I got some problem with logging out from kde. The mouse pointer stays on the top most line and can't be moved and it copy-pastes text randomly.
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