debian/knoppix soundcard difficulty

[Michael Phillips]

Make sure the user trying to make the sound is part of the audio group

Michael

--- "S. Lawton" <green_man at bluefrog.biz> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:49:16 -0500
> Stephen Burke <qfwfq at adelphia.net> wrote about "debian/knoppix soundcard
> difficulty":
> 
> > So now I've got knoppix-GIS installed on a hard drive here (which is 
> > interesting because I've never done it successfully with debian and
> > the installation is ridiculously easy compared to a debein install),
> > but the SBlive soundcard does not seem to want to work.
> > 
> > dmesg shows me:
> > 
> > emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8066 found, IO at 0xe000-0xe01f, IRQ 5
> > ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: <83><84>v88(Unknown)
> > spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> > emu10k1: SBLive! 5.1 card detected
> > 
> > so clearly it's being found.
> > 
> > modinfo soundcore shows me:
> > 
> > filename:    /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o
> > description: "Core sound module"
> > author:      "Alan Cox"
> > license:     "GPL"
> > 
> > so, apparently the kernel module is there.
> > 
> > kmix does not have the sound muted or anything (as in mandrake), and 
> > googling does not seem to be helping much.
> > 
> > Since this is my first taste of debian, I'm still rather lost, but
> > would be much happier lost with tunes.
> > 
> > Certainly the word "spurious" up there doesn't look too good, but I'm 
> > not sure what it means.
> > any suggestions are most welcome.
> > What am I missing?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > S.


		
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