I am having a tough time getting my soundcard to work under Linux. First of all I installed Mandrake 7.1 because I have a Promise UDMA/66 IDE controller which most other releases of Linux do not recognise (I tried Redhat 7.0 and Mandrake 7.2 without luck). So Mandrake 7.1 worked and most of the hardware was recognised but the soundcard (Soundblaster Live! Value) has been a real problem. I used Hardrake and it picked up the card but all the parameters were set at -1 and no sound was playing on the test. I tried sndconfig and again it recognised the card but no sound played. I tried the commercial OSS driver (emu10k1) and something happened which looked reasonable in the /dev/sndstat file but again no sound. The support guys there suggested I needed to check cable connections but since the card works fine under Windoze I am sure that is not a problem. I can play wav files using the OSS driver and the mixer seems OK just no sound. I checked the IRQ and it matches that used under Windoze. I have tried both the regular emu10k1 driver and the alsa drivers without luck. I am beginning to think that the ide recognition under Mandrake 7.1 did something to the soundcard recognition (I read something wierd about UDMA/66 patches under 2.2.x Linux kernels saying that for Mandrake 7.1 the patch `breaks` recognition of certain other hardware. Any leads would be greatly appreciated- this problem is very frustrating as everything else about Linux has more than lived up to my expectations. System Details: PIII 600Mhz (Gateway Performance) Promise IDE PCI UDMA/66 Quantum Fireball 13Gb hard-drive Soundblaster Live! Value 256Mb RAM 3com 905c NIC Cable Modem DVD CD RW Drive
