[Alsa-user] HELP! SoundBlaster Audigy SE SB0570 & alsa-driver-1.0.11 & snd-ca0106

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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
jws...@jw...