[PlanetCCRMA] No sound from SB Live!
Tom Olson
tjolson at verizon.net
Tue Jun 15 08:54:01 PDT 2004
I'm attempting to install CCRMA on 1 Pentium -3, 1 Ghz, with a 40 GB
disk and 512 Mb of memory, and a SB Live! card. I've loaded the Fedora 1
iso from the CCRMA site. It recognized the card and played the sample
sound. Here is the lspci -v output for the sound card:
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01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! Player 5.1
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at df80 [size=32]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
01:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port
(rev 07)
Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at dff0 [size=8]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
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I followed the installation directions and installed apt, ran "apt-get
update", then installed the kernel and drivers in planetccrma-core. I
rebooted, ran "alsaconfig" and generated this "module.conf" file:
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alias eth0 e100
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.4 ---
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. ---
options -k snd-card-0
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I added the last line, per the Install guide. I rebooted using the new
modules.conf file, but still no sound. I checked what modules were
loaded with lsmod:
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Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 44328 0 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 16120 2 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-emu10k1 84888 3
snd-rawmidi 18016 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-pcm 83584 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer 19396 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-util-mem 3128 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-hwdep 6304 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-page-alloc 8856 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm]
snd-seq-device 5896 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 61896 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd 46756 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss
snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi snd-pcm snd-timer snd-util-mem snd-hwdep
snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore 6468 6 (autoclean) [snd]
parport_pc 18756 1 (autoclean)
lp 8612 0 (autoclean)
parport 37088 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 12116 0 (autoclean) (unused)
e100 55972 1
floppy 57340 0 (autoclean)
sg 35468 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17432 0 (autoclean)
microcode 4220 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12048 0
scsi_mod 110312 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 34432 0
cdrom 34592 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 2688 0 (unused)
hid 23908 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 26156 0 (unused)
usbcore 78784 1 [hid usb-uhci]
mousedev 5300 1 (autoclean)
input 5888 0 (autoclean) [keybdev hid mousedev]
ext3 71716 2
jbd 51340 2 [ext3]
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It looks like the right modules are loaded, did nor see a emu10k1
module, so that looked fine to me. I checked the mixer with alsamixer,
levels were fine and not muted.
I was looking around the archives and thought it must be something with
the "modules.conf" file. I went to the Alsa website, looked up the SB
Live! in the card matrix, did not see anything "really" wrong.
Finally, out of frustration, I decided to try again, this time with
Agnula on top of Fedora 1.
Reloaded Fedora 1, installed Agnula, and this time the SB Live! works.
Still thinking it was a module issue, I copied the "modules.conf" file
from the working Agnula - SB Live setup. I then reinstalled Fedora1 and
CCRMA, with the working "modules.conf" file. Here it is by the way.
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alias eth0 e100
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
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
options snd major=116 cards_limit=1
options snd-emu10k1 index=0
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
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Still no sound....
Is it "kudzu" in Agnula that made the difference? Any suggestions on how
to troubleshoot?
Is this actually a question for the Alsa guys?
Thanks in advance,
Tom
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