Does anyone know how to set up a Sound Blaster Audigy Fx (SB1570) on the Slack 14.1 (64bits)???

- It is a a PCI Express Sound card and uses a Realtek ALC898 chipset, linux loads the snd-hda-intel module for it.
- KDE shows a mixer for it, as usual.

Apparently everything is fine, but every time that I try play a sound
I heard static noise only!

The lspci -v output:

03:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs Device 0012 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 0010
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f7c04000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Memory at f7c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [170] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
Capabilities: [180] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

aplay -l output:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Creative [HDA Creative], device 0: ALC898 Analog [ALC898 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


What is wrong?
Anybody can help me with this?

So is it actually attempting to make a sound and that sound is static, or are you only hearing static constantly through the speakers?

My guess is that your system is playing sound through card 0, which is your hdmi port (from your video card). You would need to change the defaults to card 1, which is your Audigy.

See the following for more troubleshooting and possible fixes.

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:har...s_on_slackware

Thanks bassmadrigal,

I only hear static hiss whenever any sound is played.

I had seen the page you suggested, but it didn't help much.

How are you trying to play sounds? Do you have anything in place to have the sound go to the card instead of the hdmi port (asound.conf/.asoundrc)? Have you tried playing a wave file using aplay and specifying your device? (likely aplay -D plughw:1,0 /location/to/test.wav)

Yes, I created a /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf file setting the Audigy as default card and tried to play a sound file with the command 'aplay-D plughw: 1.0...' keep happening the same thing.

I've not had much luck playing proper sound in an HDMI system without blacklisting the HDMI. Unless you really need it for something you might consider just removing it altogether from software support.

The Audigy should be using a Creative based driver rather than the HDA driver. The HDA might be a co-processor chip, but it should be using the snd-emu10k2 driver.

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Thanks ReaperX7 for your co-operation!

Sound Blaster Audigy is a product line of sound cards from Creative that has several different models. Some older models use the kernel module snd-emu10k1 or snd-emu10k2 on Linux. The Sound Blaster Audigy Fx (SB1570) is a newer model that takes the ALC898 chip of Realtek and uses the snd_hda_intel kernel module on Linux. You can confirm this in the pages below.

http://www.linux-hardware-guide.com/...pcie-5-1-sound

or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster_Audigy


I am suspecting that maybe the problem is related to the kernel version...

Seeing your linked info should confirm that you need to build a newer kernel. IIRC v14.1 Slackware uses 3.10.x and the first article refers to 3.16.x. Following Alien Bob's excellent guide http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...rnelbuilding&s[]=kernel&s[]=compile will not only help you build a proper, newer kernel but also customize it for low latency and realtime scheduling, a substantial game for a system in which sound and multimedia are high priority.

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Yeah, You're right yes enorbet!

I'm going to have to get some time to take care of that...

Thanks for the Alien Bob's link...

Pat has a config file for 3.18.1 in the -current testing/ directory. Your pick between generic or huge (generic builds most things as modules where huge has them built into the kernel).

http://slackbuilds.org/mirror/slackw...esting-3.18.1/

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Thank you bassmadrigal!

I'll see it there too.

Be aware that, if they still support them, Realtek did write their own custom Linux driver a while back specifically for their stuff.

As an optional venture you might also get better support using the "OSSv4" driver from the oss SlackBuild package, just be aware you will have to rebuild that driver if you update the kernel.

Using an /etc/asound.conf always solves my problems. And I have 3 soundcards enabled. When I want to switch cards I just change the asound.conf and all works fine.

I had a problem with sound too, the default was not at card 0 but card 1. Tried the recommended fixes on slackware site but to no avail as something would be broken onwards. I had trouble with graphics too, screen went black after a while text came out, logging out booted into black screen, suspend into black screen too. My slackware adventure was going pitch black. when i ran arch in the past i had a similar screen problem as i had kept the iso i check the setup and compared against my slackware.

Found the fix in my arch's lilo.conf, I set append= "nomodeset". After i did this to my Slackware64 14.1, it worked.Even the sound cards were displaying in the correct manner. Life is so bright after all. Not that sure why it works, it was a long time back when i fix my arch. its been awhile too since i was using linux. In any case i also added a 'snd-hda-intel' just to be safe. Hope this solves your problems too.