I can't get sound working in Slackware 9.1/current. I have a SB Live! value card, has worked in linux before. lsmod shows emu10k1 is loaded, as is soundcore and everything else that's needed. I did some research on alsa and put in the correct aliases. When I run alsaconf, it can't find my card and searches for legacy cards, can't find any and that's it.

Settings in KDE control center are fine. This is a common card, so I'm not sure why I'm having all this trouble.

Barbara

in term window or command line type

lspci

what is your output???

Here is my lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)
02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
02:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
02:0d.0 Serial controller: 5610 56K FaxModem 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01)

Here is part of my /etc/modules.conf

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

What does "lsmod" say about your sound modules?

sigma957, sorry to go off topic, but i noticed that u have a riva tnt2 agp card. how much fps do u get in glxgears ??

Aussie: I'm not at my linux box, but I do have soundcore, emu10k1 loaded. Can't remember any others.

vinay_s_s: I don't use linux for games, and I don't even run the Nvidia drivers, never looks good for me, the 'nv' driver works fine. Never ran glxgears, sorry!

Barbara

The module 'emu10k1' is an OSS sound module and won't work with ALSA, the module you need to use is called snd-emu10k1, the 'snd-' part is what seperated the old OSS modules from the new ALSA modules.

Okay, I feel a bit silly, but I can't find where the standard emu10k1 module is being loaded, or how to load the snd-emu10k1. Any help? thanks so much for the help so far

Barbara

Use the following to check if they are commented out.

haldir@mirkwood: haldir $ cat /etc/rc.d/rc.modules | grep emu10k1
#/sbin/modprobe emu10k1
#/sbin/modprobe emu10k1-gp

Have you got hotplug installed and running at boot?

what version of alsa do you have running? believe it or not, i couldn't get 1.0.4 working, but 0.9.6 worked just fine. Also, when I installed kde 3.2.1 for the first time, the multimedia files managed to mess up my sound, I had to re-install 3.1.4 and then re-install 3.2.1 without the multimedia files.

Okay this is getting frustrating. I have everything current, a well supported card, yet it won't work. Is there anyway to trash alsa and go back to OSS? at least that has worked in the past on other distros.

ringwraith and aussie: I have hotplug running and emu10k1 is running, but snd-emu10k1 is not loaded, just the regular emu10k1 module. Modprobe of snd-emu10k1 says it's not found, even though it's in the modules and even if I put in the full path.

I'm planning to change from bare.i kernel to 2.6.5 this weekend. What should I enable to try to get sound working?

Thanks for the help, folks!

Barbara

Can you look for the presence of /etc/hotplug/blacklist?
Starting with v9.1 Slackware uses hotplug to detect hardware and load modules at boot, and the OSS sound modules are listed in /etc/hotplug/blacklist to stop them from loading. Your /etc/modules.conf is correctly set up for ALSA, yet the OSS sound modules are loading which leads me to think that hotplug is not installed and perhaps the alsadrivers package is not installed as well.

As an alternative, I do not run hotplug. I disable it. Then I uncomment the needed modules in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules That way I know what is loading and not loading. You have to know your system though... sound modules, usb, .... But at least you don't have to worry about hotplug loading stuff that interferes by loading modules that you do not want to load.

But that is exactly what the blacklist file is for. . .