turtle beach santa cruz suse 9.1

[knavely]

Hi

Having a very difficult time getting this sound card to work.
When I configured with Yast, it seemed to work using the
"sound fusion CS4614" driver. I mean the test worked.

But then it only worked on LBreakout for a short period, and now its not even working on that.

tried to reconfigure but nothing seems to work.

tried modprobe smd-cs46xx
and nothing happend.

any help would be great.

[hard candy]

If you are using KDE, maybe try the Control Center-->Sound System and test it. If that doesn't work, I would use YAST to delete it, reboot, and then reinstall it.

[knavely]

I tried your suggestion, but still no sound. I also tried messing with the alsa mixer, making sure there was nothing muted. But the sound still doesn't work.

I also noticed that Yast identifies the card as a Crystal Clear Sound Fusion Audio Accelerator, even though the card is a Turtle Beach Santa Curz. I'm not sure what to make of that.

[hard candy]

I just installed Suse and that is what mine is recognized as. No problems with my Turtle Beach so far, and I have never had any with any other distro. So, I'm thinking, maybe a hardware problem. Do you have another computer you could try it in? Or do you have Windows to try it in? And if you have Windows, maybe try downloading a new driver from the Turtle Beach site. They have a "beta" driver available that updates the firmware also, it installed easily in mine in Win98.

The module "cs48xx" is the correct one, and it seems YAST is recognizing it correctly. That is why I'm leaning toward a hardware issue.

[knavely]

Guess I should have mentioned we are running the 64 bit version of suse 9.1

just seem to be out of luck with the sound cards.

SB audigy LS didnt work either, though i blame myself for not looking into it before hand, it was just a good price. But the santa cruz seemed like a great card, and i read great reviews. This is kind of dissapointing.

So if I return it, what would be the most sure fire bet? the Audigy 2 ?

[hard candy]

Look at the Creative Labs section on this list, for their products you have to buy an OSS driver for linux:
AMD64 (http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_875_10454,00.html)

No Santa Cruz support.

[knavely]

well actually I just tried an older sound blaster PCI 128 card, which worked fine...

its very strange.

thanks for the help

[LuNiXdO]

I'm currently using the 32 bit version of Suse 9.1 and have some trouble with the Santa Cruz card as well. It was working fine using Suse 9.0. After upgrading to 9.1 the sound produced by the card seems to be 'unbalanced'. Using headphones, I can clearly hear the right channel. The left channel appears to be low-pass filtered.

Changing several volume levels didn't change anything, until I changed the level for the ADC in YAST. All of a sudden everything sound ok again. So I've stored these settings.

However; after a reboot the issue is back again...

I'm suspecting wrong mixer (alsa) settings or timing issues.

Did anyone have similar issues after upgrading ?

[LuNiXdO]

I've resolved the issue by shutting down (temporarily) KAmix and alsasound (rcalsasound stop). Then removed the file which actually contained the problem: /etc/asound.state

After rcalsasound start and alsactl store things were back to normal.

This was probably due to old Suse 9.0 settings that were not properly converted to Suse 9.1