No sound...

Discussion in 'Linux, BSD and Other OS's' started by StimpE, Sep 21, 2006.

  1. StimpE

    StimpE lol, Internet!

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    Running mandriva 2006 powerpack, with a SBAudigyZS sound card. It's simply not outputting any sound no matter what I play and this is after I installed the win32 codecs. Any ideas? :)
     
  2. Anti-Trend

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    The win32-codecs are for playback of certain proprietary audio and video codecs which have no native Linux equivilents. So, they won't help you get your sound card working unfortuantely. Please run the command:
    Code:
    lspci
    and post the results here. Next run the command:
    Code:
    cat /dev/sndstat
    and post those results also. That'll give us enough info to start troubleshooting. :)
     
  3. StimpE

    StimpE lol, Internet!

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    lspci
    Code:
    00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 755 Host (rev 01)
    00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
    00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 36)
    00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
    00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
    00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
    00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
    00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
    00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
    00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] RAID bus controller 180 SATA/PATA  [SiS] (rev 01)
    00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
    00:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04)
    00:0c.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
    00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
    00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
    00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
    00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro]
    01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro] (Secondary)
    
    cat /dev/sndstat
    Code:
    [landon@localhost ~]$ cat /dev/sndstat
    cat: /dev/sndstat: No such file or directory
    
    *EDIT* I rebooted fer shitz and I apparently now have sound. wee!
     
  4. Anti-Trend

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    OK, it looks like the card is present but no modules for it are. Creative has really been confusing me with their product branding lately! According to internet resources, that card's chipset could possibly be an EMU10k1, EMU10k2, or something else entirely. Try setting up the card in the Mandriva Control Center, aka Configure My Computer. Try the emu10k1 ALSA driver (emu10k1-snd I think) and see if that helps.

    *EDIT* You posted just ahead of me! ;-) It looks like it was probably of the emu10k1 variety, so you should be good to go. The card has to be mixed a bit according to your speaker settings and preferrences, but that should be it.
     
  5. StimpE

    StimpE lol, Internet!

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    Originally it was set to the EMU10K1 module, so I tried some other ones, then I set it back to the original module, rebooted and for some reason that fixed the problem..
     
  6. Addis

    Addis The King

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    I just bought a SB Audigy 2 ZS. When I loaded the snd-emu10k1 driver with alsa (after disabling onboard sound via bios) I saw a lot more options on kmix. :D
     

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