Hi everyone, I'm sure you've heard this all before, so sorry to not have figured it out myself. I've looked through all the HOW-TOs and Q&A archives I could get my hands on, but basically I'm a linux newbie and don't have the raw geek-power to set up my sound card.
Despite the fact that I'm a 3rd year computing science student and am pretty comfortable using Unix, X, emacs, vi, or whatever, when I get home and work on my programming assignments, I do so in M$ Windows with puTTY and XWin32. Why? Because it's easy. An untrained monkey can get a Windows machine set up with sound, network, etc... It has taken me four months (so far) to get my linux machine working (and I still don't have sound). It took me a week just to get the mouse wheel to work! Am I stupid? Don't answer that. Anyways... where was I... Oh yes, I feel bad that I'm using M$ Windows and want to kick the monkey off my back. But thats not going to happen if I can listen to music in Windows, but not in linux/X. Help! Relevant System Info: i686 (AMD duron) Linux 2.2.19 (Slackware 8.0) Sound Blaster Live! value. The steps I followed: -downloaded ALSA drivers, libs, utils -ran ./configure without any switches -Wondered about this line in the HOW-TO: "If you have ISA Plug & Play soundcard, use --with-isapnp=yes switch." But decided that I have a PCI card not ISA. -ran ./make install (no errors) -ran ./snddevices (no errors) -editted my /etc/modules.conf to look like this: /etc/modules.conf alias net-pf-4 off # we won't use PF IPX alias net-pf-5 off # we won't use PF AppleTalk # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1 options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_index=1 snd_id="SoundBlubberLive" # OSS/Free portion 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-0-12 snd-pcm-oss -ran modprobe snd-card-emu10k1 bash-2.05# modprobe snd-card-emu10k1 /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/snd-card-emu10k1.o: init_module: Device or resource busy /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/snd-card-emu10k1.o: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/snd-card-emu10k1.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/snd-card-emu10k1.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/snd-card-emu10k1.o: insmod snd-card-emu10k1 failed -thought that the second line "Hint: ..." was my problem, but didn't know how to set IO/IRQ parameters, so did nothing And that's where i'm stuck. Additional info: bash-2.05# cat /proc/pci Bus 0, device 13, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 8). Vendor id=1102. Device id=2. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801]. Bus 0, device 13, function 1: Input device controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 8). Vendor id=1102. Device id=7002. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xec00 [0xec01]. After rebooting #cat /proc/modules does NOT show soundcore, but #modprobe soundcore, then #cat /proc/modules shows: soundcore 2768 0 (unused) pcmcia_core 45184 0 ne2k-pci 4384 1 8390 6624 0 [ne2k-pci] ppp_deflate 40032 0 (unused) ppp 22192 0 [ppp_deflate] slip 7904 0 (unused) slhc 4496 0 [ppp slip] lp 5936 0 (unused) parport_pc 7600 1 parport 7808 1 [lp parport_pc] Anyways, before or I after I add soundcore I get the same errors when adding snd-card-emu10k1. 'pci=reverse' does not appear anywhere in my lilo.conf Thanks in advance for any help, Adam. _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user