Jim Gentry wrote:
>
> I have installed Mandrake Linux 8.0 and (briefly) 8.1 on my Gateway
> PentiumIII with a SB Live value card, but can't get the sound to work.
> I have installed the ALSA utilities and when I try to unmute with
> amixer, I get the message "The ALSA sound driver was not detected in
> this system". Mandrake 8.0 is presently installed with kernel
> 2.4.7-12.3mdk. 8.1 seemed to have other problems in addition to the
> lack of sound. I am a relative newbee to Linux.
>
> dmesg reports:
> Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.7, 16:29:54 Aug 20 2001
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:0a.0
> emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8032 found, IO at 0xdf80-0xdf9f, IRQ 11
>
> cat /proc/modules reports:
> emu10k1 49232 0
> soundcore 3984 4 [emu10k1]
>
> The only entry in my modules.conf file was:
> alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
So, Mandrake successfully set up sound to use the OSS/free drivers. What
problems do you have? Try to raise volumes and unmute channels with
a mixer like kmix if you have installed KDE.
> I feel modules.conf should have more entries for emu10k1 than that
> single one. I have read all the faq's and howto's I can find and most
> examples have several entries for the sound drivers. I could not find
> anything for emu10k1, however. (the latest entry in the HOWTO was 1999)
>
> Can anyone post an example modules.conf for a distro of Linux using
> kernel 2.4.x? Hopefully someone out there is using Mandrake 8.x with a
> SB Live successfully. I could get no help from the Mandrake folks, so I
> am appealing to the source...
Ummm, did you try [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? I know at least one person
got a SB Live working with ALSA and LM8.0 . See the Mandrake website for
mailing list subscription and archive info.
> Thanks for your attention.
-Frans
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