Hi again.
- and thanks to Ben.
Sorry for the long post, but I thought it best I explain as clearly as I can.
I loaded Ubuntu 5.04, then installed KDE - what a whopper of an exercise that was!
I also installed the SB16 card I have and disabled the onboard sound card in the BIOS.
THEN
per
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=31494&highlight=soundblaster
sudo modprobe snd_sb16
Then
alsamixer
and boosted the volume.
This gave me sound!!
Installed a kid-friendly collection of icons and a pink-cat Firefox theme (urm, okay, this is the point that I tell you this is for my daughter - why does she like PINK? - and is on an old Compaq)
So all works well, except... on reboot, I've no sound.
I then followed the suggestions at:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labs&card=Sound+Blaster+Vibra16X.&chip=sb16&module=sb16#modp
and my install is brand new, with updates and with alsa-driver and alsa-utils up-to-date, so I shouldn't have to install the latest, as of posting, X.X.X.X.0.1 version (should I?) when I have those that were the latest the day before?
So I made a file called alsa, installed it as the suggested /etc/modutils/alsa
containing:
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-sb16
# module options should go here # OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
# card #1
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-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss(just a question, where is says "# module options should go here", should there be anything there?)
Then ran
update-modules
and then... still doesn't work.
So
sudo modprobe snd_sb16
and
alsamixer
again
and again, sound... with XMMS and Realplayer, but not with Amarok...?
The Alsa site also suggest (I think this is correct) that I should modify the:
/etc/modules.conf
but the link describing how is broken.
Any assistance, advice, suggestions would be most appreciated.
I can get sound (though not in Amarok), which is a huge improvement, but have to buggerise around after rebooting.
Thanks,
Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
