Mandrake 9.1 and Audigy 2

[Hudson]

Okay, so I have an Audigy 2 sound card.
I installed Mandrake 9.1 a few days ago. Mandrake 9.1 comes with the 0.19 version of the emu10k1 driver. You need version 0.20 for Audigy 2 support. Fine, I got that. I installed it. It went fine. I checked and the emu10k1 version .20 loads fine when I boot up. The module's there, the card shows up in every player I try, the volume's not muted but for some reason I get absolutely no sound. I'm not sure what I did wrong or what I forgot. Any suggestions?


Thanks in advance!

Hudson

[phil_patnude]

are you using digital or analog speakers?
try plugging in the opposite of the type you have and see if it works then

[Coral Sea]

I have an SB Live Digital card with digitial speakers. I get sound but can't control the volume with soft controls...have to use the hardware volume control.

[phil_patnude]

Coral Sea: are you able to adjust the soft volume as the root user? If you can, you probably just need to adjust the permissions to /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp

Hudson: another thing i thought of, are you using "modprobe emu10k1"
or "insmod emu10k1" at boot? You should be using modprobe.
Note: loading the emu10k1 module should automatically load some other modules such as "soundcore". I configured an SBlive (also emu10k1-based) on my other machine last night and a few sound modules joined the driver module, just can't remember which ones. Run "lsmod" to see if all the necessary sound modules are getting loaded.

Also, what media player are you using? Do you have any others you can test playing sound with? Does the scope or the time meter move as you play the file or does absolutely nothing happen.
Let me know whats up, because right now i'm just throwing suggestions out there

[Coral Sea]

Originally posted by phil_patnude
Coral Sea: are you able to adjust the soft volume as the root user? If you can, you probably just need to adjust the permissions to /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp


Never thought of that, so I just tried as root. Doesn't make any difference...

[phil_patnude]

ok, coral_sea here's another thing to check:
make sure your speakers are plugged into the "spk" port and not the line-out port of the sound card. AFAIK, the sound level for the l-o on most devices is not adjustable

[Memoo_dt]

just slightly off topic but very much related.

Sorry but I 'quoth the infidel'.
i'm running Mandrake 8.2 on a GigaByte VAX-07 motherboard with built on sound.
The system is dual boot (2 physical HDD's.1 MS/1 Linux) I can and do get perfect sound from winXP, but unfontuntently KDE/GNOME only give me direct CD sound eg. Playing music disks. open for suggestions ?:) :confused:

Linux Newbi.
Memoo

[Coral Sea]

Originally posted by phil_patnude
ok, coral_sea here's another thing to check:
make sure your speakers are plugged into the "spk" port and not the line-out port of the sound card. AFAIK, the sound level for the l-o on most devices is not adjustable

Everything's plugged in the way it's supposed to be. Works perfectly in Winblows XP and 98.

[phil_patnude]

coral_sea, i don't know why i didn't think of this earlier:
what are you trying to use to adjust the soft volume:
a particular media player such as xmms or a general mixer tool such as aumix?

[Coral Sea]

Both, and then some. Doesn't make any difference so far....

[Hudson]

Thanks for the tips Phil_Patnude, while they weren't the cause of the problems, it was while I was browsing my modules with lsmod to check and see if they were all there that the emu10k1 module is listed as not being used by anything. I have a follow-up question now; How do I configure the aRTS sound server to point it to the emu10k1 drivers and/or module? Once again thanks for the help!


Regards,
Hudson

[phil_patnude]

Hudson, I don't use KDE so I'm not really familliar with configuring aRTS. AFAIK, though, the server will point at your sound device, which is probably /dev/sound, rather than at your actual sound module.
I don't know what version of the server you're running, but try to run (as root) artsc-config which is part of aRTS 2.2.2.

Coral Sea, I'm kind of at a loss now. I can't think of anything else to try at the moment. Have you read this NHF? : http://justlinux.com/nhf/Soundcards
It's all about configuring an SbLive. Hudson, you may want to have a peek at it too, since your card uses the same driver.

[Hudson]

Well, I went into XMMS player and
under the OSS configuration where you select
your output and mixer devices, instead of
it pointing to the emu10k1 driver it finds I pointed it to /dev/sound/dsp1 and /dev/sound/mixer and now I have sound in XMMS, but nowhere else. :) I tried
running artsc-config as root and it seemed to do nothing, just gave me another prompt with no messages - errors or otherwise. I'm going to
do some more reading on aRTS and see what I can find out. I've heard ALSA mentioned a few times, mostly how it's a bit easier on the setup side of things than arts, does anyone know much about it? Should I switch in your opinion? Thanks!


Hudson

[phil_patnude]

Hudson,

I don't really know the difference between the different sound drivers & such, but if you're going to be doing audio editing and so forth on your pc, you'll probably wind up needing both sooner or later. Also, I don't remember if kde will allow you to use servers other than arts now, as I haven't used KDE within a few months & i'm very much out of practice.
If you've got Xmms working now, then you're 1 step closer to getting sound working globally on your box. Try this command to see if you can get a little more done with the arts config tool
artsc-config --help (The option "--help" will tell most command line tools to print its availble options.)

Also, if you log in as root and run kde, try to load some of the kde configuaration apps in the "System" ( i think) submenu of the main KDE menu. Particulary the main KDE config tool and any sound tools (if there are any). These *may* help allow you to change the output device of aRTS to the appropriate device.

What other programs are you trying to grant sound to? Xine, Mplayer, different games? A lot of programs x-based programs will have configuation menus that allow you to select your audio device, etc. similar to the way xmms does. Try to use the same settings xmms is using for these other programs, too. good luck

-Phil