[PlanetCCRMA] Problems with Alsa and Sound Blaster Live card

[TheRobeBoy at aol.com]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to get the Alsa drivers running with a Sound Blaster Live card on 
my computer with Fedora Core 1 and CCRMA.  I am not sure what I am doing 
wrong so any help would be much appreciated.  I am new to linux as well so I 
readily admit this could be my problem.  Appologies if there are any typos or 
formatting errors when I am giving you error messages and whatnot.  The computer I 
am having the problems on doesn't have an internet connection so I am typing 
these all by hand.

Anyway, when I am using the default sound drivers that are installed with 
Planet CCRMA and I do an lsmod command I get the following list (I am going to 
restrict these lists to only the modules that seem to be audio related):

Module            Size        Used by    Not tainted
emu10k1        72872        1    (autoclean)
ac97_codec    17224        0    (autoclean)    [emu10k1]
sound             74900        0    (autoclean)    [emu10k1]
soundcore       6660         7    (autoclean)    [emu10k1 sound]

When I run alsaconf if immidiately prints the following which may or may not 
have anything to do with my problems:

which: no dialog in 
(/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin)

The alsaconf program then detects and configures my soundcard but then starts 
having problems.  It tries to start alsa and run the alsamixer and I get the 
following messages:

Loading driver...
Starting sound driver snd-emu10k1
/lib/modules/2.4.22-9.23rc3.ll.rhfc1.ccrma/kernel/sound/snd-emu10k1.o: 
init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.22-9.23rc3.ll.rhfc1.ccrma/kernel/sound/snd-emu10k1.o: insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.22-9.23rc3.ll.rhfc1.ccrma/kernel/sound/snd-emu10k1.0 failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22-9.23rc3.ll.rhfc1.ccrma/kernel/sound/snd-emu10k1.0: Hint: 
insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid 
IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog of the output from dmesg
insmod snd-emu10k1 failed
                                                                              
    [FAILED}
Setting default volumes...
Saving the mixer setup used for this in /etc/asound.state.
/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1061: No soundcards found...

after this operation, the only addition to the lsmod list is:

Module            Size        Used by    Not tainted
snd                47012        0    (autoclean)

Here is the modules.conf file after running alsaconf:

alias usb-controller usb-uhci
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.0 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

So, thinking I may still have the oss drivers installed or something I reboot 
the machine.  The lsmod listing is then:

Module            Size        Used by    Not tainted
snd-mixer-oss    16432    0    (autoclean)    (unused)
snd                    47012    0    (autoclean)   [snd-mixer-oss]
soundcore            6660    0    (autoclean)   [snd]

if I try to invoke the alsa mixer I get the following error:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

the dmsg command displays the following related to the soundcard:

EMU10K1/Audigy soundcard not found or device busy.

Any ideas?  Thanks for the help.

- Jeff Taylor
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