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

From: heavenbound (l_at_l.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:19:55 -0700

"Clive Dove" <chdove@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:TEgzc.29310$0FI1.1052@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> heavenbound wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> OK, then for now we are working on system that is using an audigy card
> in a pci slot and with a sound system that is working in Mandrake bur
> not in SuSe.
>
> I am assuming that SuSe has a similar kernal to Mandrake 10.
>
> While still running Mandrake and while in your home directory, run this
> command from a root prompt
>
> lsmod -> modules.txt
>
> This will give you a record of the modules installed. There will be a
> lot of them for the sound card, but the alsa audigy modeule is
> autoprobing and so when the boot process runs modprobe on snd-emu10k1
> it fetches the rest of the modules. I Just want to see what will come
> up once we do a standard install of suse and compare it to what you
> have now.
>
> You can also use the gui facility Mandrake Control Center which is in
> your KDE menu as "Configure your Computer"
> In it, click on Hardware, then again on Hardware then scan down to
> Soundcard and the sub-menu entry will be the module that Mandrake
> installed, Highlight it and you will see a list of particulars.
> Click on the "Run config tool" button then hover your pointer over the
> browse arrows at the end of the selection button beside Driver: and a
> small list will pop up showing what Mandrake considers to be
> alternative drivers for this card, In my system they are emu10k1,
> audigy and snd-emu10k1 but yours may be different as you have a
> different soundblaster version,
>
> Then before re-installing SuSe, make sure that the on-board sound in the
> bios has been disabled. While you are in the bios, make sure that "PNP
> AWARE OS" (or whatever your bios calls it) is also disabled. This
> feature is now a historical curiosity that has not been needed by
> either system for some time but which manufacturers still seem to want
> to leave enabled. The only current effect is to annoy the operating
> system.
>
> Re-install Suse and tell us what it chooses as a sound card module.
> Run these commands and tell us the results
>
> lspci | grep audio -i
> grep sound /etc/modules.conf
> lsmod | grep emu10k1 (from a root prompt)
> lsmod | grep audigy (from a root prompt)
>
>
> One of the above lsmod commands may result in a null return
>
> If your system is using alsa, (which is the preferred one to use as it
> will gradually replace the ossfree system as the default sound system)
> then you should open KMix or another gui mixer window that lets you see
> what channels are muted and what are not muted. and run your volume and
> pcm sliders to max. Apparently that is needed in some systems to jump
> start the sound system (I don't know why, but I did struggle with a
> sound system for a while before trying it)
>
> If you get interference sounds, you may have to start shutting down
> channels one at a time to find out which channels are conflicting with
> each other. In the most recent KMix version, note that the input
> channels and the output channels are now on different pages in the
> mixer window.
>
> Some guesswork is at play here on my part. Hopefully some SuSe guru
> will jump in.
>
>
> Clive
>
>

Clive maybe you can tell me this.

Install Suse 9.1 with a default install. i don't have all 5 cd's, only 4, so
i can't install everything like i want to. so i choose a default install,
uses 2 cd's. after it's installed it works fine for sound and all that. i
then went to control center, changed install source to ftp install and
installed everything else that i dind't install orriginally. reboot, no
sound. why?