slackware 10 soundblaster live alsa

rizzah · 12-01-2004, 12:03 PM

Hello, cant seem to get this darn thing working. I ran alsaconf and it found my sblive card. I ran alsamixer and it popped up with my tv tuner card so i ran alsamixer -c 1 and nothing is muted I also did a
chmod 666 /dev/mixer*
chmod 666 /dev/dsp*

still nothing.any suggestions?

here's a copy of my lsmod

Code:

bash-2.05b# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
snd-pcm-oss            37736   0
snd-mixer-oss          12504   2  [snd-pcm-oss]
parport_pc             14788   0
parport                23336   0  [parport_pc]
uhci                   24444   0  (unused)
usbcore                59308   1  [uhci]
nvidia               3205624   6
snd-emu10k1            62920   2
snd-hwdep               4804   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-util-mem            1136   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-ac97-codec         49500   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-rawmidi            12740   0  [snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device          3888   0  [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
emu10k1-gp              1352   0  (unused)
gameport                1420   0  [emu10k1-gp]
tuner                  10184   1  (autoclean)
tvaudio                13480   0  (autoclean) (unused)
bttv                   94656   0  (unused)
i2c-algo-bit            7144   1  [bttv]
i2c-core               12804   0  [tuner tvaudio bttv i2c-algo-bit]
videodev                5952   2  [bttv]
snd-bt87x               5192   2
snd-pcm                56072   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-bt87x]
snd-timer              13604   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc          6328   0  [snd-emu10k1 snd-bt87x snd-pcm]
snd                    30852   2  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-bt87x snd-pcm snd-timer]
soundcore               3396  10  [bttv snd]
8139too                14376   1
mii                     2272   0  [8139too]
crc32                   2880   0  [8139too]
ide-scsi                9328   0
agpgart                43940   0  (unused)

rizzah · 12-01-2004, 01:00 PM

okay i get this error from gnome

alsa lib pcm_hw.c:1155(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmc0d0p failed no such device

anythoughts?

busbarn · 12-01-2004, 01:19 PM

did you recompile the driver? I know that if you did anything with your kernel, you have to recompile your alsadriver to get it to work properly.

rotvogel · 12-01-2004, 06:52 PM

Is your sblive card0 or card1. My guess is that the tvcard or simular device is detected as card0 and your sblive as card1.

egag · 12-01-2004, 07:30 PM

maybe you can just exchange the cards .
( well....just a thought , there must be a better solution )

egag

tw001_tw · 12-01-2004, 10:08 PM

Quote:

maybe you can just exchange the cards .
( well....just a thought , there must be a better solution )

Kinda. I have an SBlive and a bt878 too. At one point, like you, the bt878 was
recognized before the sblive by alsaconf. I could not figure a software way
around it, so I removed both cards, removed alsa, installed alsa, installed my sblive
card, ran alsaconf, then installed by bt878 card. And that solved it.

I'm sure there must be a file to edit to change the order, but I couldn't find it

good luck
-tw

otchie1 · 12-02-2004, 05:35 AM

in ALSA you need to uses the aliases lines in the conf to address differing cards in differing orders.

In this case it's just I'm guessing that devive 0 is the TV tuner and device 1 the SBLive!
...your sound apps are all preconfigured to hunt down device 0.

Oddly all this is covered in the ALSA readme files :-)