Hi! I recently bought a Hercules Game Fortissimo II sound card, which uses the cs4624 chipset (I believe). I've installed it into a Debian/testing system, and I have the alsa-base 0.9+0beta10 package installed, as well as alsa-source 0.9+0beta10 (contains the source for the drivers. I built the driver for cs46xx from this, and then installed the resulting kernel modules package.) I also have alsa-headers, alsa-utils and alsaconf installed, and these are the modules I have loaded upon boot:
root@simba:~# lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted snd-seq-midi 3232 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss 23264 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 2920 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 37196 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 35744 0 (unused) snd-mixer-oss 9184 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-card-cs46xx 1408 0 snd-cs46xx 67872 0 [snd-card-cs46xx] snd-pcm 47232 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-cs46xx] snd-timer 10432 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 12576 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-cs46xx] snd-seq-device 3952 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 22848 0 [snd-cs46xx] snd 24584 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-card-cs46xx snd-cs46xx snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec] serial 44064 0 (autoclean) --- My file for modutils (automatically added when update-modules is run): root@simba:~# cat /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cs46xx 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 snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0 options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 options snd-card-cs46xx snd_index=0 snd_id="cs46xx" I have unmuted the Master, Headphone, CD and PCM channels using alsamixer and amixer, so they are the following: jeremy@simba:~$ amixer Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 63 Front Left: Playback 47 [75%] [on] Front Right: Playback 47 [75%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 63 Front Left: Playback 47 [75%] [on] Front Right: Playback 47 [75%] [on] ... Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 23 [74%] [on] Front Right: Playback 23 [74%] [on] ... Simple mixer control 'CD',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined cswitch-exclusive Capture exclusive group: 0 Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 15 [48%] [on] Capture [off] Front Right: Playback 15 [48%] [on] Capture [off] To test the card, I downloaded and installed the xmms-alsa plugin for ALSA 0.9 from , and then tested it. I plugged in a pair of headphones into the 4-way splitter jack, which was plugged into a plug in the back. At 75% on PCM and Master, I could just hear the music playing. My ultimate aim is to eventually plug the machine via optical cable into a receiver, and I tried that out, plugging the optical cable into "S/PDIF OUT" on the back of the sound card, however when I played music in XMMS, no sound whatsoever came out of the speakers... Can anyone help? I really want to get this working, but am unsure how! Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks! _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
