Re: sound card problem

Ray Olszewski
2005-04-21T04:15:09Z

ymc014 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I really apologize for not informing in advance that this is the first
> time I've used linux,I've been using windows through the years,from windows
> 95 up to windows XP(my OS before I've decided to switch to Linux) so I do
> not really know what is "modprobe sb","lspci-vv" etc., I am reading a FAQ
> though(as of this writing I've just open the link to a FAQ given below) but
> for now I may not be able to give you the details that you want to know to
> help me except for my hardware or system.

Yeah, I pretty much read you as a first-timer from your earlier message.
That's why I gave you the *exact* commands you need to type in to get
the relevant information. All you need to do is type what I wrote and
look at (or send us) the output. But see below; you probably do not
actually have to go through all of that now.

>
> I have a fairly new sytem:
> Pentium 4, speed 2.8 GHz (HyperThread and of course a suitable
> motherboard)
> 512MB RAM(PC-400 Kingston)
> 80 GB Seagate HDD(not SATA)
> Soundcard: It says here in the box,Creative SoundBlaster Audigy LS
> Asian Edition
>
> OS: Windows XP Home Edition

Ah, that explains the problem. The Creative Website that you probably
found says, in part --

"Some OEM cards and the latest retail boards (such as the Dell CT0200
and the Audigy LS) will not work with the drivers included in most Linux
distributions. For those cards, try the latest code from ALSA or
purchase a driver from 4FrontTechnologies."

Unless you want to pay for the proprietary 4Front drivers (I'm not
familiar with them myself), it sounds like you need to use the ALSA
sound modules, not the standard (OSS) modules that come with the Linux
kernel.

Use the Red Hat Package Manager utilities (rpm-find, I think) to find
the alsa package (its name will probably be something like
alsa-modules-2.4-something-or-other) and install it on your system. (One
of the Red Hat or Fedora users here will have to help you with using
rpm, since I use a different distro and have not used rpm in 5 or more
years.) Also look for a package named something like alsa-utils ... it
includes, among other things, an app that will detect your sound card
and set up the alsa modules to support it.

>
> So there,and by the way,although the price of a soundcard here is
> affordable,I have just bought my soundcard last december and I am wont to
> use it.
>
> I will take up your suggestion though to try Fedora but I will have to
> familiarize first this one. I appreciate very much your help.Thank You.
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