Mailing List Archive: SoundBlaster Live Value, 2.4 kernel and alsa question

SoundBlaster Live Value, 2.4 kernel and alsa question

Sep 24, 2004, 12:19 PM

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I've done quite a bit of googling on this and haven't come up with the correct
solution yet. I'm hoping someone here will be able to help. I just installed
gentoo last week using the universal live cd. When configuring the kernel, I
enabled the emu10k1 option as a module under the sound card section. After the
reboot, I had no sound. lsmod showed that the module was loaded but not in use.
I then noticed that there was an ebuild for the emu10k1. So I emerged that and
still nothing. I went through the alsa setup guid and amixer says no device is
attached. If anyone has had to go through this, what are the proper steps? Do I
forget the kernel module and only do alsa? Or do I only do the kernel module,
forget the ebuild and get the alsa-utils? Thanks!

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Re: SoundBlaster Live Value, 2.4 kernel and alsa question [ In reply to ]

motub at planet

Sep 24, 2004, 2:35 PM

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Glen Wagley wrote:
> I've done quite a bit of googling on this and haven't come up with the correct
> solution yet. I'm hoping someone here will be able to help. I just installed
> gentoo last week using the universal live cd. When configuring the kernel, I
> enabled the emu10k1 option as a module under the sound card section. After the
> reboot, I had no sound. lsmod showed that the module was loaded but not in use.
> I then noticed that there was an ebuild for the emu10k1. So I emerged that and
> still nothing. I went through the alsa setup guid and amixer says no device is
> attached. If anyone has had to go through this, what are the proper steps? Do I
> forget the kernel module and only do alsa? Or do I only do the kernel module,
> forget the ebuild and get the alsa-utils? Thanks!
>

The 2.4 series kernel doesn't come with ALSA, it comes with OSS. You
have to install alsa-libs, alsa-driver, and alsa-utils manually if you
want to use ALSA under a 2.4-series kernel.

So the alsa setup utility and amixer (which are both ALSA utilities) are
not much use to you.

I would suggest trying sndconfig and aumix instead, for a start, and see
how that helps. I would also check my applications to make sure they
were configured to use OSS rather than ALSA. This is especially
important if you use KDE/arts-- you would need to go to the KDE Control
Center=>Sound and Multimedia and change the arts setting from
'AutoDetect' (which never seems to work), explicitly to OSS (or ALSA,
when you have it installed).

Hope this helps.

Holly

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Re: SoundBlaster Live Value, 2.4 kernel and alsa question [ In reply to ]

iaindb at netspace

Sep 24, 2004, 5:36 PM

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Re: SoundBlaster Live Value, 2.4 kernel and alsa question [ In reply to ]

emailgrant at gmail

Sep 24, 2004, 5:49 PM

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> I've done quite a bit of googling on this and haven't come up with the correct
> solution yet. I'm hoping someone here will be able to help. I just installed
> gentoo last week using the universal live cd. When configuring the kernel, I
> enabled the emu10k1 option as a module under the sound card section. After the
> reboot, I had no sound. lsmod showed that the module was loaded but not in use.
> I then noticed that there was an ebuild for the emu10k1. So I emerged that and
> still nothing. I went through the alsa setup guid and amixer says no device is
> attached. If anyone has had to go through this, what are the proper steps? Do I
> forget the kernel module and only do alsa? Or do I only do the kernel module,
> forget the ebuild and get the alsa-utils? Thanks!
>
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> Glen Wagley <gwagley@wagdog.net>

Your sound card didn't come in a Dell machine did it? If so, it's
probably a emu10k1x chip as Iain mentioned, but I'm not so sure lspci
would pick up on that.

- Grant

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Re: SoundBlaster Live Value, 2.4 kernel and alsa question [ In reply to ]

gwagley at wagdog

Sep 24, 2004, 6:09 PM

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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 at 10:06 +0930, Iain Buchanan scribbled:
>Are you sure you have the emu10k1? Check the output of lspci and make
>sure its not an emu10k1x.
>
relevant portions of lspci:
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333
AGP]
0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev
07)
0000:00:05.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev
07)

I suppose another option is to compile the 2.6 kernel. I understand it has
supportfor alsa and the whole nine built in to the kernel.
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Re: SoundBlaster Live Value, 2.4 kernel and alsa question [ In reply to ]

gwagley at wagdog

Sep 24, 2004, 6:29 PM

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/me bonks self in the teeth.
Ok, so I am feeling kinda stupid. I go back and open up xmms, play an mp3 (as
root this time) and everything is playing. Well, kinda. I can only get sound out
of the left speaker right now for some reason. I add my user to the audio group
and well, I've got sound. I'm not using ALSA just OSS as was pointed out
previously. Perhaps recompiling my kernel and nuking all the ALSA stuff will fix
the channel problem. Anyhow, thanks everyone.
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