sound, please!!!!

[mart_man00]

ive been using linux for awhile now but with no sound, this is really bugging me now.

i have a sound blaster live value sound card and im running gentoo linux. i installed alsa and followed the gentoo alsa install guide.

the sound modules do load with no errors and i did play with the mixers so the volume is up, still no sound. when i start kde i get a karts message of "cpu over load".

in my kernel i have sound support as a module and nothing else under sound, like the guide says.

ive posted this a couple times know, can any one help me?

thanks.

[Gertrude]

That card uses the "emu10k1" driver.

[mart_man00]

yeah, i know. its supposed to work with alsa.

i also tried alsa-xmms, i get a zillion error messages(really, over 100 if i let it for a couple of seconds).

any ideas, please?

[shadowrider]

follow this (http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=Creative+Labs&card=Soundblaster+Live+Value&chip=EMU10K1&module=emu10k1)

EDIT

actually, you might wanna try emerge alsa-oss.
but that's weird. if amixer works fine, xmms playing? if it does, might wanna check the plugins, check the connections.

[mart_man00]

xmms playing?
no. no sound when i click play (on a mp3) it pops up with a zillion error messages(really, if i let it i could have a 100 in a few secs).

the link wont work for me, thanks anyways. ill see if i can dig it up.

[shadowrider]

opps..i had no idea why it didn't work before. i fixed the link.
btw, when you say no sound, you can play the song though right? except you have no sound.
well..check out the driver, and if that goes along well, make sure you unmute master and pcm from amixer, then check again the plugins under xmms.
it should be xmms -> preferences-> plugins, and make sure you're using the right output module.

try the
alsa-oss too.

[mart_man00]

the sound file doesnt play at all. the progress thing in xmms doesnt move at all.

i checked out the link, they only thing there i havnt done was to change the permissions. but i used gentoo and have devfs so it would be over-written and ive been doing this as root so it cant be permissions.

thanks

[shadowrider]

what are some of the errors?

[mart_man00]

karts give me

Sound server fatal error:
cpu overload, aborting


since i want the error from xmms it would give me one, it just freezes now. im not sure what i did for that to happen.

the play button is pressed but no sound the the location slider doesnt move.

[shadowrider]

try to go to the control panel, sound section, uncheck "use full dupley" mode for the sound server, and aRTs sound system

[mart_man00]

the only thing i see is a "Enable full duplex operation", its been unchecked. i tried checking it too.

[je_fro]

That's the only thing that worked for me.
Are you sure you followed the Gentoo ALSA instructions?
(Just checking)

Do your sound settings look like the atachment?

[mart_man00]

Are you sure you followed the Gentoo ALSA instructions?
yes, im thinking maybe before that i didnt something with emu10k1 drivers and theres a conflict. i have no proof or anything it just very starange how it wont work.

may screen looks like yours except i have it loading on startup and gave it realtime priority. are those bad(the dont seem it to me, the newbie)?

thanks

[evac-q8r]

sndconfig as root. :)

Nevermind: that pertains to redhat distro.

EVAC

[je_fro]

Originally posted by mart_man00


may screen looks like yours except i have it loading on startup and gave it realtime priority.

thanks

You shouldn't have loading _at_any_time_!
Disable aRTS!

[shadowrider]

Originally posted by je_fro
You shouldn't have loading _at_any_time_!
Disable aRTS!

yea that's what i thought..it should work

[mart_man00]

i tried it with no arts, still no music.

i talked to a local linux guru today, he called some guys at a near by college. the said that its a problem with kde itslef and that they should be able to hack a couple of files to get it to work for me(they really are nice, i bet they will. im sure they could).

so im thinking this is a pretty big problem.

could i try it one the console to be sure its kde? how? everybody forgot about this...

thanks