On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, ktb wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 09:50:40AM -0600, ktb wrote: > > I purchased a Soundblaster 16 (PCI) CT4810 OEM card yesterday and still > > can't > > get the thing to work. I've selected all the soundblaster choices for > > the kernel as well as pnp support. The card isn't detected on boot, > > nothing in dmesg. I've tried using module es1371, got a little static. > > /sbin/lspci -v shows - > > > > 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq: Unknown device 5880 (rev 02) > > Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 2003 > > Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 > > I/O ports at d800 [size=64] > > Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 > > > > I got this card because I though it would be easy to install. Are there > > any lower end cards that are? How do I get this thing to work. > > Thanks, > > kent > > > > Don't know exactly what I did but I have music from cdrom and can cat > .au files to /dev/audio. > kent > You will need to add yourself to the audio group, and if you are using modules (see addgroup) you need to load these at boot time by adding these to /etc/modules: sound # My main sound module, does not seem to need any special options es1371 lsmod output: es1371 23876 2 sound 55480 0 (unused) soundlow 348 0 [sound] soundcore 2372 7 [es1371 sound] tulip 30232 1 you may also want to get an audio mixer (package aumix, for some reason I have to run this even though the software says it is NOT muted...you can use this utility to adjust the volume--useful if you are using headsets...