Re: Another Linux Myth Exposed - Hopeless at playing music ..

Paul J Gans wrote:

David Wright <david_c_wright@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Paul J Gans wrote:

I agree with most of this. I have done two installs of 10.0,
each one taking about an hour all told in the end.

But I can't get sound working on either machine. I can't find
any help or clues either.

What sound cards do you have and what errors if any are you getting
(probably better to start a new topic)? I have an Audigy, an Audigy 2ZS,
an Oak, SiS and whatever Acer Centrino notebooks use and they have all
come up working after the first boot...

SuSE reports it (correctly) as a CT4790 SoundBlaster PCI512
and says it is configured with driver snd-emu10k1.

Hmm, I don't know this card, but ISTR a couple of years ago that there were
complaints about it support for standard SB features (i.e. normal SB driver
weren't working)...

That's it. No program I have produces any sound. The Control
panel "test sound" button produces a "starting sound system"
message and then crashes with a signal 11 (SIGSEGV). Why it
segfaults is beyond me.

Silly question, but have you checked the volume setting in KMix or
Alsamixer? I know that on some cards it can default to digital output for
some reason - never seen it myself, but I have seen it reported by others.

Did a quick google, but couldn't find anything relevant. The error is a
segmentation violation, so sounds like either a corrupt driver or it has a
bug.

Have you tried de-installing the driver and re-installing from the CD or a
repository? If that doesn't help, I would put it in as a bugzilla error
report for the package maintainer.

And of course in a previous life a month ago when this was a
dual boot machine the sound worked flawlessly with Windows
(but not with 8.2, the linux version then on it). I'm now
running SuSE 10.0 straight off the installation CD.

Aha, there you go then. Go to Creative and ask them for the drivers. They
provided the ones for Windows, so they should be the ones providing them
for Linux as well, nobody knows their hardware as well as the original
manufacturer... Although in ATi's case I wouldn't trust their drivers as
far as I could throw them... ;-)

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SUSE, along with the Packman and Guru repositories are doing a great job
(and to be honest in the last year I have probably downloaded two packages
that weren't in the repository, plus a handful of Superkaramba widgets).
But until there is a universal Linux installer that works for all
distrbutions and the only thing you have to worry about is downloading the
version for your processor platform,it just insn't reaching the
friendliness that the masses require.

And how do you know which packages you need?

Not sure what you mean? I look at the descriptions in the package manager at
the moment and it takes care of the dependencies. Of course if somebody is
putting up a package in a repository or on their own website, they should
ensure that all dependencies are met by providing the dependent packages or
links to them - and maintaining the links ;-)

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Dave
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