RE: RE: Re: Re: [PLUG] Creative SBLive! Value sound card

[billywissman@netscape.net]

Oh boy Bill, I'm still at it?

>That's odd.  With sound.o not being used by emu10k1.o, that suggests to
>me that perhaps emu10k1.o isn't finding the sound card.

sound.o is the OSS driver support
soundcore.o is sound card support

While speaking with a coworker (today), he suggested not to select OSS driver support (sound.o) and recompile...After running "make xconfig", in the "Sound" section, I only selected "Sound Card Support (soundcore.o)" and "Creative SB Live! (emu10k1). In the "Loadable module support" section, loadable module support is enabled along with the other two options (can't remember them, but not vital). Saved and Exit. Ran make dep clean bzdisk (I'm booting from floppy) modules modules_install. cp bzImage to floppy and reboot. After reboot (this is where I am not sure) so I ran depmod -a and update-modules to be safe (not sure which command is proper?) Then "modprobe emu10k1" :

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
emu10k1                50624   0
ac97_codec              9568   0 [emu10k1]
soundcore               3492   4 [emu10k1]

The "Not tainted" line is new. I upgraded my modutils to 2.4.15 (was running 2.3.11) And as a result get the "Not tainted" line (I'm not really worried about that though?)

Test sound using Realplayer8 and "cat (audiofile) >/dev/dsp" no sound nor errors? Sounds like something is muted, but don't where to look?


relevant portion of lspci -vvv (it's way long)

01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000 (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs CT4831 SBLive! Value
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 2 min, 20 max, 64 set
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: I/O ports at df80 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
                Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI- D1+ D2+ PME-
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

and the contents of /proc/pci (well a snippet anyway, also way long)

Bus  2, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Vanta [NV6] (rev 21).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfd000000 [0xfdffffff].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf2000000 [0xf3ffffff].
  Bus  1, device  10, function  0:
    Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 7).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20.
      I/O at 0xdf80 [0xdf9f].
  Bus  1, device  10, function  1:
    Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 7).
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  
      I/O at 0xdff0 [0xdff7].
 Bus  1, device  13, function  0:
    Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax/Voice/Spkp Modem (rev 8).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc9e0000 [0xfc9effff].
      I/O at 0xdfe0 [0xdfe7].

*I see IRQ 11 three times?*

>/proc/interrupts

        CPU0       
  0:     251772          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       6102          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  3:         30          XT-PIC  usb-uhci
  9:       5559          XT-PIC  usb-uhci, eth0
 11:       2447          XT-PIC  EMU10K1
 12:      48849          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 14:       4682          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:          7          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0 
LOC:     251742 
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

*From this output only looks like EMU10K1 is using IRQ 11?*

/proc/devices:

Character devices:
  1 mem
  2 pty
  3 ttyp
  4 ttyS
  5 cua
  7 vcs
 10 misc
 14 sound
 36 netlink
162 raw
180 usb

Block devices:
  2 fd
  3 ide0
 22 ide1

>A couple other questions... You mentioned (IIRC), that's you're using
>Debian 2.2r6.  What version of the kernel are you running?

I'm a newbie, not sure what (IIRC) is. I'm using Debian 2.2r5 stable. Kernel 2.4.18

Has the
>sound card worked before, either in a different installation of Linux or
>a different OS?  Have you tried plugging the card itself into a
>different PCI slot?

I have Windows98 on another partition on the same hard drive as Debian and the sound card works perfect.

Bill Wissman


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