Update: Mandrake and SBLive soundcard - fun with xkill

[Stephen Burke]

Thanks guys. 

I suspect you are right, as I now seem to recall that everything was 
muted here in suse when it started, too, and I used kmix to crank the 
volume (Alsamixer volume, as I remember it, was not muted here). Odlly 
enough though, kmix on the mdk drive showed normal volume level (nothing 
muted) and alsamixer doesn't seem to want to run even after 
(re?)installing both it and alsmixergui from the CDs- still trying to 
figure that one out.

Meanwhile, I ran alsaconf, which seemed happy to configure things for me 
(even ends with that encouraging "Have alot of fun!" message when it's 
done). After that, full of fresh hope, I tried to play something with 
xmms (still open in the background - maybe I should have turned it off 
BEFORE running alsaconf?) and it [xmms] just froze solid. No sound, no 
response, nada. For some reason (it was late and I must have been 
running out of some crucial brainpower), I used xkill to get rid of it, 
which apparently killed it for good, as it is no longer in the start 
menu and doesn't run from the command line, either. Generally I've been 
using the System Monitor to end processes that won't respond, but for 
some reason xkill seemed like a good idea at the time (probably I should 
learn to use ps ). Lacking xmms, I tried playing something with noatun. 
No sound there either.

Currently, I get perfect sound in xine and mplayer, but not xmovie (or 
mp3 players), so I'm thinking the problem now lies elsewhere, though I 
can't imagine where at the moment. Very strange. Back to the various 
mixers, I guess.

I also re-found the "Creative Open Source" page (which I have seen 
before but had forgotten about) whilst seeking a solution, but when I 
tried to make the (re)make the driver from those sources, I got all 
sorts of complaints about kernel problems, and further gave that up when 
someone on a forum somewhere pointed out (as you did) that the driver is 
already there in mdk (this is 9.1 - it's there too), and since I'm not 
too confident about hammering on the kernel yet.

Fun for days!

Now to figure out exactly what xkill does - probably a good idea to 
research that before I go frying anything else...
;-)

Thanks again for your input,
S.

JJ Neff wrote:

>I have a SBLive(value) - and use Mandrake 9.  I had problem with the Mixer
>settings as well.  I used the mixer as suggested and made sure everything was
>enabled.  By default some things were disabled or turned to 0 level. very odd. 
>Almsot forgot I had to do that until I saw this post.  Remember to Save you
>mixer settings or they will be lost every time you reboot.
>
>JJN
>--- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>The problem that you're having might have something to do with the default
>>values of alsa sound.  Try running alsamixer and find out if all of the
>>channels are muted.  This is the typical default config for alsa.  Mandrake
>>10.0 and 10.1 automatically find emu10k and installs the right alsa driver
>>for
>>it.
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>>Cheers!
>>
>>Bob
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>>--- Stephen Burke <qfwfq at adelphia.net> wrote:
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>>>Is anyone here using Mandrake?
>>>If so,  have you figured out how to get sound out of a soundblaster 
>>>SBLive card with it?
>>>Following some advice I found googling, I have already disabled onboard 
>>>sound, but that didn't do much except produce a couple of error messages 
>>>telling me it couldn't find the emu10k1 driver.
>>>Mandrake's hardware browser identifies it correctly so I used the config 
>>>tool there to set it to use the driver above, but that isn't doing the 
>>>trick either.
>>>I seem to recall reading something a long time ago about simply copying 
>>>the driver from the soundblaster CD, but I am not quite sure where I 
>>>would copy it to.
>>>
>>>I've had no problems getting suse or redhat to work with it so I'm kind 
>>>of lost here.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>S.
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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