On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:32:30 -0400 "J. William Snyder, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you very much for taking the time to read my plea for help. I > recently bought a * Creative Sound Blaster SB0570 Audigy SE 7.1 Channels > 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Card - OEM* from Newegg.com > (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102003), and I > have been pulling my hair out trying to get it to work with the ALSA > CA0106 driver in alsa-driver-1.0.11. Basically, I have gotten it to the > point where I can load snd-ca0106 and the associates modules, and the > card shows up in /proc/asound. However, absolutely no audio is produced > when common sound programs like XMMS are run. When I try to run XMMS, I > get the dialog that I should check my soundcard configuration (XMMS is > set to use the ALSA driver). When I set XMMS to use the OSS driver, > XMMS will play audio according to the VU meter, but no audio is output > to the speakers. When I run the old program vplay, the response I get > is "Invalid audio buffers size 1023." Before I ran snddevices, the only > response I got was "/dev/dsp: no such device." > > I was successful in getting the OSS driver for the Audigy LS working > with this particular sound card, but sound becomes choppy anytime load > is put onto the CPU. Accordingly, using the OSS drivers is not an > acceptable solution. Everything I have read on this listserv and what I > have been able to Google about this card is that support for it has been > slow going. I can only speculate that there is something novel enough > about this particular card that support for it is not complete. > > Ok, here's my setup: > RedHat 9 > Linux 2.4.32 > alsa-driver-1.0.11 > > AMD AthlonXP 1800+ > > And here are the output of the programs that I have seen used for > diagnosing these problems: > # lspci -v > 00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs: Unknown device 0007 > Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 100a > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 > I/O ports at d800 [size=32] > Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 > > # ls -l /proc/asound > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jul 21 14:21 CA0106 -> card0 > dr-xr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Jul 21 14:21 card0 > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 21 14:21 cards > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 21 14:21 devices > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 21 14:21 modules > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 21 14:21 oss > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 21 14:21 pcm > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 21 14:21 seq > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 21 14:21 timers > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 21 14:21 version > > # lsmod > Module Size Used by Tainted: P > snd-pcm-oss 35584 0 (autoclean) > snd-mixer-oss 15960 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] > videodev 8768 0 (autoclean) > binfmt_misc 7112 1 > serial 51556 0 (autoclean) > parport_pc 31560 1 (autoclean) > lp 7648 0 (autoclean) > parport 35744 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] > snd-ca0106 27576 0 (autoclean) > snd-rawmidi 17592 0 (autoclean) [snd-ca0106] > snd-seq-device 6168 0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi] > snd-ac97-codec 88536 0 (autoclean) [snd-ca0106] > snd-pcm 73660 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-ca0106 > snd-ac97-codec] > snd-timer 19208 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm] > snd 51648 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss > snd-ca0106 snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer] > snd-page-alloc 7664 0 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss snd-ca0106 > snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-pcm snd-timer snd] > soundcore 6468 6 (autoclean) [snd] > Mvnetd 9732 1 (unused) > Mvnet 55552 0 [Mvnetd] > Mvnetint 332 0 (unused) > Mvw 4660 0 (unused) > Mvmouse 808 0 (unused) > Mvkbd 928 0 (unused) > Mvgic 3256 0 (unused) > Mvdsp 1008 0 (unused) > Mserial 6708 0 (unused) > Mmpip 7092 0 (unused) > Mmerge 134500 0 [Mvnetd Mvnet Mvnetint Mvw Mvmouse > Mvkbd Mvgic Mvdsp Mserial Mmpip] > mki-adapter 27328 0 [Mvnetd Mvnet Mvnetint Mvw Mvmouse > Mvkbd Mvgic Mvdsp Mserial Mmpip Mmerge] > nfsd 52712 8 (autoclean) > lockd 43664 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] > sunrpc 84060 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] > tulip 43328 1 > af_packet 14664 0 (autoclean) > keybdev 2816 0 (unused) > mousedev 5204 0 (unused) > input 5664 0 [keybdev mousedev] > hid 11800 0 (unused) > unix 17384 104 (autoclean) > > # cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [CA0106 ]: CA0106 - CA0106 > Audigy SE [SB0570] at 0xd800 irq 11 > > # cat /proc/asound/devices > 0: [ 0] : control > 8: [ 0- 0]: raw midi > 16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback > 17: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback > 18: [ 0- 2]: digital audio playback > 19: [ 0- 3]: digital audio playback > 24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture > 25: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture > 26: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture > 27: [ 0- 3]: digital audio capture > 33: : timer > > # cat /proc/asound/modules > 0 snd-ca0106 > > # cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat > Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.11 emulation code) > Kernel: Linux rebecca.jwsnyder.com 2.4.32 #3 Wed Jul 19 22:47:46 EDT > 2006 i686 > Config options: 0 > > Installed drivers: > Type 10: ALSA emulation > > Card config: > Audigy SE [SB0570] at 0xd800 irq 11 > > Audio devices: > 0: CA0106 (DUPLEX) > > Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG > > Midi devices: > 0: CA0106 MPU-401 (UART) > > Timers: > 7: system timer > > Mixers: > 0: mixer00 > > # ls /dev/snd* > /dev/sndstat > > /dev/snd: > controlC0 hwC1D3 midiC0D2 midiC1D5 midiC3D0 pcmC0D1p pcmC0D7c > pcmC1D4p pcmC2D2c pcmC2D7p pcmC3D5c > controlC1 hwC2D0 midiC0D3 midiC1D6 midiC3D1 pcmC0D2c pcmC0D7p > pcmC1D5c pcmC2D2p pcmC3D0c pcmC3D5p > controlC2 hwC2D1 midiC0D4 midiC1D7 midiC3D2 pcmC0D2p pcmC1D0c > pcmC1D5p pcmC2D3c pcmC3D0p pcmC3D6c > controlC3 hwC2D2 midiC0D5 midiC2D0 midiC3D3 pcmC0D3c pcmC1D0p > pcmC1D6c pcmC2D3p pcmC3D1c pcmC3D6p > hwC0D0 hwC2D3 midiC0D6 midiC2D1 midiC3D4 pcmC0D3p pcmC1D1c > pcmC1D6p pcmC2D4c pcmC3D1p pcmC3D7c > hwC0D1 hwC3D0 midiC0D7 midiC2D2 midiC3D5 pcmC0D4c pcmC1D1p > pcmC1D7c pcmC2D4p pcmC3D2c pcmC3D7p > hwC0D2 hwC3D1 midiC1D0 midiC2D3 midiC3D6 pcmC0D4p pcmC1D2c > pcmC1D7p pcmC2D5c pcmC3D2p seq > hwC0D3 hwC3D2 midiC1D1 midiC2D4 midiC3D7 pcmC0D5c pcmC1D2p > pcmC2D0c pcmC2D5p pcmC3D3c timer > hwC1D0 hwC3D3 midiC1D2 midiC2D5 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D5p pcmC1D3c > pcmC2D0p pcmC2D6c pcmC3D3p > hwC1D1 midiC0D0 midiC1D3 midiC2D6 pcmC0D0p pcmC0D6c pcmC1D3p > pcmC2D1c pcmC2D6p pcmC3D4c > hwC1D2 midiC0D1 midiC1D4 midiC2D7 pcmC0D1c pcmC0D6p pcmC1D4c > pcmC2D1p pcmC2D7c pcmC3D4p > > Many thanks for any replies and assistance with helping me getting this > card to work. I am planning to upgrade to Fedora Linux 5 in the hopes > that doing so might rectify the problem since I have seen reports that > this card works out of the box with a recent version of Fedora. > > Will Snyder > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > I am not an ALSA developer, but the SOP is: 1) forget about OSS for the beginning; 2) try 'aplay' as the "official" ALSA playback application. 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