c-media and soundblaster live

[jingoglia]

i've been searching the forums for a few days now and can't seem to find this specific problem. I have an asus a7v266-e motherboard, which includes onboard audio(cmedia, audio'97). However do not use that as i have a soundblaster Live pci card. Redhat 8 recognizes(sp?) the soundblaster card, and it seems to have installed the drivers already, but i still get no sound from the soundblaster ports. what is weirder is that if i put my speakers into my onboard audio jacks, i start getting sound, even when i play the test sound for the soundblaster card. I also have the onboard audio disabled in my bios. Any ideas on whats stoping the soundblaster?

my specs
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AMD 1800+
Asus k7v266-e
768mb ddr pc2100
Nvidia ge-force3 ti 200
60gb hdd
100gb hdd

[mdwatts]

Try what I suggested in this thread (http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84187&highlight=onboard+sblive).

If it doesn't help, you can search the JL forums for 'onboard sblive' to find the other threads from which I located the above.

[jingoglia]

editing /etc/modules.conf didn't work. i also have been reading the other posts, so far nothing working. Right now my bios is "pnp aware os = no" i think thats right. On a weird note, if i emulate things via wine, i get sound. Is that because its emulating windows?

[mdwatts]

You tried...


If the C-Media is the first device detected and the SBLive the second, you should be able to add

alias sound-slot-0 off
alias sound-slot-1 emu10k1

to /etc/modules.conf to disable sound-slot-0 (C-Media) and load the SBLive module (emu10k1) for sound-slot-1.


rebooted and it didn't help?

What soundcard related modules are loaded?

lsmod (list loaded modules)

Have you adjusted the volume levels and ensured nothing is muted in the sound mixer?

[jingoglia]

Here is my lsmod list

Module Size Used by Not tainted
sr_mod 18136 0 (autoclean)
soundcore 6500 0 (autoclean)
binfmt_misc 7524 1
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ipt_REJECT 3736 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14840 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
ide-scsi 10512 0
scsi_mod 107176 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 33608 0
cdrom 33696 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
nls_iso8859-1 3516 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5116 2 (autoclean)
vfat 13084 2 (autoclean)
fat 38744 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
mousedev 5524 1
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
hid 22244 0 (unused)
input 5888 0 [mousedev keybdev hid]
usb-uhci 26188 0 (unused)
usbcore 77056 1 [hid usb-uhci]
tulip 43488 1
ext3 70400 6
jbd 52212 6 [ext3]
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i have also checkd my sound mixer, nothing is muted(all lights dimmed) and i turned up the volume on everything.

Like i said, i get sound out of my onboard jacks, even when the soundblaster is selected

[mdwatts]

You do not have any soundcard related modules loaded besides the base 'soundcore'.

First ensure you have PnP OS disabled in the bios, check the results of 'lsmod' again and if emu10k1 is not loaded, use (as root)

modprobe emu10k1

to load.

[AJIU]

I bought a new motherboard with a c-media audio chipset. They have a new chipset that has the 5.1 sound. It recognized the audio chip as the via sound. The new chipset is 9739A to get the driver go to www.cmedia.com.tw and then go to drivers - linux. I have found a problem with the newer redhat versions. Redhat 8 and 9 give a kernel Oops error and then eventually the computer freezes and never responds but this is after several hours.

Hope this helps