alsa with soundblaster card not working

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joshight1 · Post by **joshight1** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:30 am

i thought /etc/modules.d/alsa was written when you run alsaconf?

Do I need to manually edit this file?

thanks.

Headrush · Post by **Headrush** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:35 am

I noticed that alsaconf doesn't generate all the lines that we have from a manual /etc/modules.d/alsa setup.

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 # device_mode is no longer valid, according to http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-397730.html 
 # These 2 options are specific to the SB Live 5.1 - do not include them with other cards 
 options snd major=116 cards_limit=1 
 options snd-emu10k1 index=0 extin=0x0003 extout=0x1f03

PaulBredbury, where did you get this section from? I don't have that with mine, but no problems. With so many different SB Live 5.1 cards, maybe it is specific to only some of them.

joshight1 · Post by **joshight1** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:51 am

so should i be able to use a conf file like the one paul posted, but without those 2 lines in question? thanks.

PaulBredbury · Post by **PaulBredbury** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:55 am

Headrush wrote:options snd major=116 cards_limit=1
options snd-emu10k1 index=0 extin=0x0003 extout=0x1f03

The bottom one's from the comments for the SB Live (with digital output). I forget where the top one came from - I've been using it for about 3 years... Anyway, I've just rebooted without them with no side-effects, so I've removed them from the list

It's frustratingly unclear as to which configuration options need to be specified, as opposed to ALSA being able to self-configure. joshight1, it works for me anyway

joshight1 · Post by **joshight1** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:15 am

tried other conf file still getting errors. The modules must not be loading correctly or something...

Nov 20 19:34:39 albs kobject_register failed for snd_seq (-17) , snd_timer, snd, snd_pcm_oss, etc.

Headrush · Post by **Headrush** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:14 am

joshight1 wrote:tried other conf file still getting errors. The modules must not be loading correctly or something...

Nov 20 19:34:39 albs kobject_register failed for snd_seq (-17) , snd_timer, snd, snd_pcm_oss, etc.

I saw a specific thread referring to this error, I'll see if I can find it again. (It wasn't in the gentoo forums.)

joshight1 · Post by **joshight1** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:29 pm

Thanks headrush. This whole thing is making me want to bang my head against the wall.

PaulBredbury · Post by **PaulBredbury** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:35 pm

joshight1 wrote:Thanks headrush. This whole thing is making me want to bang my head against the wall.

There's always different things to try. Different kernel version, using alsa-driver instead of the kernel's alsa...