On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:46:08 -0500, Sy Beamont graced me with: > My workstation has a SBLive! card in it which used to work fine > under SuSE. Around the time I installed FC1 I am getting no sound > at all, and no errors either. Playing CDs, .wav files, xmms, etc > all _look_ like they are playing just fine but my the speakers > remain eerily silent, almost like they are not plugged in (yes I've > checked 100 times, and tried new speakers) > > $ /sbin/lsmod > Module Size Used by Not tainted > nfsd 79472 8 (autoclean) > lockd 57328 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] > sunrpc 83580 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] emu10k1 > 67368 0 (autoclean) > ac97_codec 16744 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1] sound > 72276 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1] soundcore > 6468 7 (autoclean) [emu10k1 sound] .. > > $ dmesg > .. > Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 13:55:18 Jan 30 > 2004 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with > 00:1f.2 > emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8022 found, IO at 0xdf80-0xdf9f, IRQ > 10 ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: TRA35 (TriTech TR A5) .. > > I do get messages from modprobe about "Can't locate module sound- > slot-1" but apparently this is caused by KDE looking for a second > sound card. > > Also, this is a dual-boot machine and W2K reports "the device is > working properly" on this card. But still, the same thing, no > errors, no sound. > > What do you think? time for a new card??? > > > thanks all > > > -S Have you checked your system's sound mixers? If you are running KDE instead of Gnome, sometimes the sound mixers will be off or working against each other. I seem to notice this problem more with SB Live! cards. This really has also been more of a problem with Mandrake systems, where KDE is the preferred DE, but still is worth a look at. HTH, Paul
