sound card unseen by alsaconf

From: Haines Brown (brownh_at_teufel.hartford-hwp.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:44:55 GMT

I'm installing debian sarge with a 2.6.8-1-386 kernel, and with an
Audigy Gamer sound card. I installed alsa-basic and tried to run
alsaconf, but it failed to see the sound card.

Apparently the hardware is seen, for lspci reports:

  Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)

On the other hand, dmesg does not report the card, even though under
the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel (same hardware, also sarge) there was a line:

  Creative EMU10k1 PCI Audio Driver, revision 0.18...

How do I reconcile the lspci report with that of demesg for the
2.6.8-1-386 kernel? Does it suggest that the card is present, but
without a proper driver loaded?

lsmod shows that the various drivers, including snd* for ALSA are
loaded during boot. The module loaded for the card is "emu10k1-gp".

The ALSA web site says that the driver for the Gamer card is emu10k2.
Could I be loading the wrong driver version somehow? What is the
difference between the emu10k1-gt seen by lsmod, and the emu10k2
recommended by the ALSA web site? Do I need to compile a emu10k2
driver and load it during boot in addition to the emu10k1-gt?

I gather there are problems with the 2.6.8 kernel and sound, but
wasn't able to find anything helpful. 

-- 
      Haines Brown

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