Re: [Alsa-user] Need Help with Audigy sound card.

[Bill U. <un...@ph...>]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, James W. Frock, Ph.D. wrote:

> No doubt I am anxious about getting this Audigy sound card working.  I have
> tried all of the things I have found on the net  including the ALSA site.
> The Debian etch software makes it sound so easy.
>
> Since the kernel didn't see the onboard sound card I disabled the onboard
> sound card.  I don't even know what brand or type the onboard sound card is.
> After reading the ALSA site I decided to go out and  purchase the Audigy
> since the Penguin said it was a good choice.
>
> It is most likely a configuration issue however what needs to be configured
> and how should it be configured.  The ALSA process and documentation
> instructions can be somewhat difficult to understand and employ as they were
> written to help users of various distributions of Linux and not just Debian
> etch users. Sometimes I think a flow chart would be helpful to help follow
> and learn the various steps and files used to make all of this work.
>
> The install file is Gnome's Synaptic with ALSA 1.0-13 version which came
> with the recent etch set.  I think I have all of the necessary packages
> installed to make this work.

alsa 1.0.13 is really ancient. The latest is 1.0.17. That debian uses
ancient versions of software usually means it only works with ancient
versions of the hardware, including sound cards.

Anyway first yo uhave to load the module (driver) for the sound card. 
I do not know what the driver is for yours. You use modprobe
for example
Here are my entries in /etc/modprobe.conf Note that they are not right for
your card, since I do not know what your driver is

alias sound-slot-0 snd_hda_intel
remove snd_hda_intel /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd_hda_intel
install snd_hda_intel /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd_hda_intel


Then to install y ou do  modprobe sound-slot-0


Note that the lines starting with remove and install are special
instructions for dealing with my sound card. Usually just
the first line is sufficient. Or just do 
modprobe snd_hda_intel

You might also want to enable oss emulation but that is a separate question.

>
> I posted an email yesterday with the specs of the kernel and various other
> parameters one might need to ascertain what the problem might be.
>
> If someone could please help I would be most appreciative.  Thank you.
>
> Jim
>
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