Re: [SLE] SOLVED! SBLive sound oddities
I finally have what I hope is full sound capabilities on my SBLive 5.1 Platinum Here is what I did: Compiled Mantel's kernel 2.4.16 using the 2.4.10 SuSE kernel's config. In the sound section, compiled with sound support as a module, the emu10k module, midi module, and oss support module and all other sound cards set to "N". Removed /etc/init.d/rc*.d/*alsa* Editted /etc/modules.conf to use the emu10k1 module instead of alsa's snd-card-emu10k1. Not sure why alsa was giving me such a hard time. I have read that the Alsa 0.9.9 series does not jive too well with KDE 2 and will be supported fully in KDE 3, but that does not explain why the 0.5 drivers shipped with SuSE did not work. I may try to play around some more, but for now, I am just glad to have sound. Josh
Greetings,
I have having some strange sound problems that I hope someone can shed some light on.
Here is what is going on:
I have a SBLive 5.1 Platinum with Live Drive on my PC at home. Inputs properly connected to it (visually verified!) is a TV card, mic, SCSI DVD/CD drive, and the Live Drive. To summarize the problems discovered during testing:
1.) CD's do not produce sound unless played via alsaplayer 2.) DVD's produce sound with ogle 3.) KDE blips, beeps, startup theme, misc. sounds play fine 4.) TV card does not produce sound (now that I finally have a TV picture thanks to Jaakko Tamminen on this list) 5.) None of the mixers do a dang thing! (tried alsamixer, kmix, xmix) alsaplayer's volume control works for CD's 6.) Live Drive line-in does not work. Headphone output on Live Drive work for anything that worked with regular speakers 7.) Gameport joystick on sound card does not work. But then again, neither does the motherboard's....
Sorry if this has been brought up recently, I am new to the list. Is it me or are there some problems with 7.3. Very rare for SuSE, but my newly purchased 7.3 Pro would not install last night. Tried a laptop and the machine will not boot, tried a desktop and the install froze before I finised installing. Is it Resier? The hardware is the same, 7.2 installed like magic and I am not upgrading, I always start fresh. I wanted some of the new features of 7.3, but on the first couple of tries, it is giving me heck. -Scott
On Thursday 06 December 2001 20.32, Scott wrote:
Sorry if this has been brought up recently, I am new to the list. Is it me or are there some problems with 7.3. Very rare for SuSE, but my newly purchased 7.3 Pro would not install last night. Tried a laptop and the machine will not boot, tried a desktop and the install froze before I finised installing.
Did you try the "safe" settings. Something happened with apic in the later kernels, so on many platforms you have to boot with "disableapic" as a kernel option. I think this is what the "safe" mode does. regards Anders
On Thursday 06 December 2001 14:32 pm, Scott wrote:
Sorry if this has been brought up recently, I am new to the list. Is it me or are there some problems with 7.3. Very rare for SuSE, but my newly purchased 7.3 Pro would not install last night. Tried a laptop and the machine will not boot, tried a desktop and the install froze before I finised installing.
Is it Resier? The hardware is the same, 7.2 installed like magic and I am not upgrading, I always start fresh. I wanted some of the new features of 7.3, but on the first couple of tries, it is giving me heck.
-Scott
I did have a problem installing 7.3 but I don't think it relates to your problem. I have 2 SCSI controllers on my system and the CD-rom is on the secondary controller. This requires me to a) load an extra module, and b) enter a parm at boot time. These 2 issues have always worked for me starting with Slackware 3.2 about 7 years ago (my first linux) up through SuSE 7.2 Pro and including a lot of Caldera and RH in between. 7.3 Pro started off just fine and it found the CD-rom and did the initial base install but when it rebooted to finish up the install, it totally forgot all about the secondary controller and I had to whistle a lot of dixie to get the install started again. Somebody broke something in the 7.3 install. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 12/06/01 16:07 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "To every rule there is an exception, and vice versa."
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Anders Johansson
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Bruce Marshall
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Joshua Trutwin
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Scott