[clug-talk] Soundblaster 128 & Debian Lenny

[Hendrik Schaink]

I had to turn off the M/B integrated "Azalia" sound chip in the BIOS.
For what it's worth, here are the automatically loaded modules for my
SoundBlaster Live soundcard on Debian Lenny which is producing sound
beautifully:

hendrik at ivcadmin:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_emu10k1_synth       5664  0
snd_emux_synth         27936  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi         4896  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul       5376  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1           115200  2 snd_emu10k1_synth
firmware_class          6816  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec         88484  1 snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus                1728  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            32800  0
snd_mixer_oss          12320  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                62596  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc          7816  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            4032  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep               6212  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_dummy           2660  0
snd_seq_oss            24992  0
snd_seq_midi            5728  0
snd_rawmidi            18496  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      6432  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                41456  9
snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              17800  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          6380  8
snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    45604  15
snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               6368  1 snd

The command 'lspci | grep Creative' outputs this on my Lenny machine:
05:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)
05:03.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 08)

Why don't you post the output from 'lsmod | grep snd' and "lspci | grep
Creative' to the list. That way we can see what's registered at the OS
level.

Hendrik


Simon Wood wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:39:22 -0700
> Rick Norman <rick.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> /etc/modules has only two entries: 'sbp2' and 'loop', but seeing as
>> how there are no new sound modules in memory after running alsaconf,
>> I'm at a bit of a loss as to what I might need to add there.
> 
> If the module is loading OK on its own but there something that alsactl is doing, then you could try saving the state of the alsa system and have that load automatically on boot.
> 
> You can save current settings with:
> alsactl store <card #>
> 
> 
> Its also possible that the module needs some parameters set, maybe alsaconf is managing to auto configure those. If you can work out what these are (I can't think how to at present) then they can be added to the /etc/modutils files.