On Tuesday 10 January 2006 22:09, Lee Revell wrote: >On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 22:05 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> I just got back from civilisation, if you can call Clarksburg WV >> civilized, with an SB Audigy 2 Value card. >> >> IIRC this is the card recommmended. And according to a quick make >> xconfig in the 2.6.15 tree, it still uses the emu10k1 driver. I >> find that a bit worrying as the top of the chip on it says CA0108. >> >> I hope I don't find any surprises when I shutdown, change it and >> reboot. >> >> Comments anybody? > >Should work great, with the emu10k1 driver, and will give you hardware >mixing and all the other goodies that Creative removed from their > newer devices. AC3 passthrough used to be broken, maybe this has > been fixed by now. > >Lee
Another bit of info, a cat of /proc/asound/cards: --------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.15]# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0, serial:0x10011102) at 0x9000, irq 20 1 [nForce2 ]: NFORCE - NVidia nForce2 NVidia nForce2 with ALC655 at 0xed001000, irq 17 ----------------- If this is any help at all... And, from /var/log/messages ------------------- Jan 10 23:04:01 coyote alsasound: Starting sound driver: snd-emu10k1 Jan 10 23:04:01 coyote kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] enabled at IRQ 18 Jan 10 23:04:01 coyote kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, high) -> IRQ 20 Jan 10 23:04:01 coyote kernel: Audigy2 value:Special config. Jan 10 23:04:01 coyote alsasound: done Jan 10 23:04:01 coyote alsasound: Starting sound driver: snd-intel8x0 Jan 10 23:04:01 coyote kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] enabled at IRQ 21 Jan 10 23:04:01 coyote kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> Link [APCJ] -> GSI 21 (level, high) -> IRQ 17 Jan 10 23:04:02 coyote kernel: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50715 usecs Jan 10 23:04:02 coyote kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 47422 Jan 10 23:04:02 coyote alsasound: done Jan 10 23:04:02 coyote rc: Starting alsasound: succeeded ------------------ Looks normal, right? A copy of .asoundrc ------------------ pcm.emu10k1 { type hw card 0 } ctl.emu10k1 { type hw card 0 } pcm.via82xx { type hw card 1 } ctl.via82xx { type hw card 1 } ---------------- And the revelant lines from /etc/modprobe.conf ----------------- # sound stuff, subject to heavy mods in future # For Alsa # 1st, make the SBLive the default alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 # 2nd, and then skype can use /dev/dsp1 alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0 # For Alsa's Oss emulation? alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias snd-slot-1 snd-card-1 # Alsa's Oss emulation # supposedly for emu10k1/SBLive Value stuff 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 # supposedly for nforce2's ac97 crap # But somethings fubar here yet. alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss # But, whats this? alias char-major-116-* snd alias char-major-14-* sound install synth0 /bin/true # end of sound ------------------- I've been staring at this till its all a blur. And for the time being, the old sblive is going back in in a few seconds. But any help will be gladly appreciated. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user