RE: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros
First are you using a SuSE supplied kernel from the main ftp directory? I think Mantel's kernels do not have ALSA compiled for them. Next, do you have the emu10k1 rpm installed? Is the PnP marked as non-PnP OS in your BIOS? If all these are yes, please send a output of insmod emu10k1. This way we can see why the module is not loading. I have been using the emu10k1 drivers in SuSE since IIRC 6.1 was the first distro w/ it. NeoFax -----Original Message----- From: Briggs, N. - Neil - [mailto:N.Briggs@Canon-Europa.com] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 9:32 AM To: 'Ben Rosenberg' Cc: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: RE: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros << File: ATT27761.txt >> Dear Ben, I wish it did work. Whenever I use YAST 2 to configure the sound card. I select the sound card and YAST determines the 'driver' it should use. My memory fails me but for this explaination sake lets assume the driver is called snd-blas-16. When I select next in YAST 2 to install the driver I get the message that the driver cannot be loaded. What to do next I know not. Whenever I try to use yast 1 it crashes!! Any suggestions, thanks in adavance Neil -----Original Message----- From: Ben Rosenberg [mailto:ben@whack.org] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 12:12 AM To: SLE Subject: Re: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros * jk05308 (jk05308@alltel.net) [011101 14:50]: ->On Thursday 01 November 2001 09:08, Briggs, N. - Neil - wrote: ->> Dear Raul ->> ->> I have read your email, as you consider configuring Alsa with SUSE ->> easy, could you please help me set up my Suse 7.1 professional ->> edition to work with a sound blaster live card. Because for the ->> life of me I have been unable to get this to work. I have mailed ->> the list a couple of times with my problems and have recieved no ->> help with my problems. -> ->I installed SuSE 7.2 on my new athlon 5 months ago and tried in ->vain to get alsa to work with my SB Live! card. So, I resorted to my ->old friend, OSS, from 4Front Technologies. It costs $20 but it works ->beautifully. Jerry, Give it another go. Make sure you have the alsa pkgs installed. I went and bought an SBlive 512 the other day for my office workstation because the POS AC97 was just a big ole pain in the arse. I popped the SBLive in and ran YaST2 ..about 10 minutes later I had working sound and YaST2 even installed the midi sound fonts for me off the CD..it asked me for the CD :) Try it again...it does work. -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal" -AE -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com
At 09:44 AM 11/2/2001 +0100, you wrote:
First are you using a SuSE supplied kernel from the main ftp directory? I think Mantel's kernels do not have ALSA compiled for them. Next, do you have the emu10k1 rpm installed? Is the PnP marked as non-PnP OS in your BIOS?
I'm glad you mentioned that, I saw that in the docs last night and nearly forgot already.. could someone please explain _why_ on earth the SBLive wants to be non-PnP? This is an issue I've never really understood - Linux has PnP support for PnP cards, so should we set the BIOS to PnP or not? What's that real difference? If someone could give this a broad, newbiezed explanation I'd like to figure this one out once and for all... ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
JW wrote:
If someone could give this a broad, newbiezed explanation I'd like to figure this one out once and for all...
There's a reasonable HOWTO about PnP - see http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html ...but it's not specifically about Sound Blaster technology of course. I found it useful for explaining what PnP was generally all about (I'm trying to sort out my own sound problems!) Cheers, -nick
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