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]
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