Re: can someone please help me get this ausio chip working?

From: heavenbound (l_at_l.com)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 01:58:17 -0700

"Clive Dove" <chdove@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> heavenbound wrote:
>
> >
> > "Clive Dove" <chdove@rogers.com> wrote in message
> > news:PN2zc.25403$0FI1.5743@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> >> heavenbound wrote:
> >>
> >> > the motherboard i have is far from crud. it's rated the
> >> > best/highest performaing and best mobo by toms hardware i think it
> >> > is.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thing about on-board sound systems is that they tend to be primitive
> >> in
> >> comparison to even modestly priced sound cards. So even if the board
> >> is highly rated, those onboard systems that really should have been
> >> in pci slots are probably junk.
> >>
> >> Which is why I specified a sound card and disabled the onboard sound
> >> in the bios when I bought my last machine.
> >>
> >> Again, please run lspci so that we can see how (or whether) your
> >> system identifies the sound system's chipset.
> >>
> >> Also, try opening a gui mixer window such as KMix and running the
> >> Master
> >> and PCB sliders to max. Be prepared to quickly lower the volume if
> >> sound suddenly blasts out at you.
> >>
> >> Clive
> >
> > Clive, sorry about the previous lspci post. Umm, I posted the lspci
> > from my own pc which has a suse 9.1 linux sound issue not working. the
> > pc that has the CMedia AC97 is the one i am using now that i do not
> > have any linux on right now. so i need to get working my own pc in
> > suse 9.1 first, which is
> > the pc that i gave you the lspci output from. So if you can give an
> > idea on the sound not working in suse 9.1, great, then i can work on
> > this cmedia ac97 sound not working.
> >
> > sorry for the confusion.
>
>
> OK, I understand that the one machine that is producing sound in linux
> is the machine that has an audigy chipset which means that it is using
> one of these modules emu10k1, audigy or snd-emu10k1. The first two are
> ossfree modules and the third one is an alsa module. The machine is
> running on Mandrake 10 Official
>
> The problem machine has no linux at this time but you intend to install
> one.
>
> I am not familiar with the gui tools and utities used by SuSe and so may
> I suggest that you install Mandrake 10 instead. Mandrake has an easy
> install yet it is a full linux system fully compliant to industry
> standards and protocols.
>
> lspci is a command that will work in any linux system. It simply
> reports the pci devices that it detects. Mandrake also has lspcidrake
> which gives some additional information, but we can do without it.
>
> The module tha has been installed should appear in a file
> called /etc/modules.conf, Here is what is showing in my system in that
> file that is relevant to sound:
>
> above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
>
> As you can see Mandrake detected the presence of a soundblaster live
> card and installed the alsa module for it. I could have done so
> manually by adding the above lines myself or I could have installed one
> of the ossfree modules by using these lines
>
> alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
> alias sound-slot-0 audigy
>
> All there seem to work well but the alsa module seems to have access to
> more of the emu10k1 chipsets channels than does either of the ossfree
> modules. (Certainly the kmix window presents a much larger presentation
> of sliders)
>
>
> Clive
>
>
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Thanks for the respone. Here's the deal as clearly I think as i can make it.

The AC97 cmedia is my other pc which has no linux on it. When I installed
mandrake 10 i got a buzzing sound only. i did try mandrake 10 once. i also
installed suse 9.1 and got no sound at all using the 9.1 suse live cd.

my own pc has the sound blaster audigy. i installd mandrake 10 last night or
something and it has working sound, just fine i think. i installed suse 9.1
via an ftp install 2 days ago, it had sound i think the first time i booted
it after i installed it. then i swapped nic cards, put in another and since
then got no audio at all. it recognized the sound blaster audigy platinum
card in the control center and also i deleted it from there and reinstalled
it. no sound still. so i put mandrake 10 and got sound fine.

i want suse 9.1 on that pc but need the sound to work properly. i like it
much nicer then mandrake for how good the GUI looks and how smooth all the
fonts are and all that. i'm a GUI guy.

anyway i really need to get the sound working properly in suse 9.1 on the pc
which has the audigy platinum card.

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