najand Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 I am using the Audigy SoundBlaster Sound Card and while I was using Red Hat Enterprise 4 it was working perfectly. Now I changed my system to Mandriva 2006 and the installation and configuration was great.... At the end of installation I even saw that the system has found my sound card drive which is "snd-emu10k1" and so on. However after rebooting the computer there was no sound. I spent almost three days on it and it seems nothing has changed. The problem is that all music applications starts to work, but still no sound. The Identification of the drive is: IdentificationVendor: Creative Labs Description: EMU10K2 Audigy Audio Processor Media class: MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO Connection Bus: PCI Bus PCI #: 2 PCI device #: 5 PCI function #: 0 Vendor ID: 4354 Device ID: 4 Sub vendor ID: 4354 Sub device ID: 8194 Driver Module: snd-emu10k1 Alternative drivers: audigy, emu10k1 I checked Kmix and all options are unmuted with the highest value. However, I could not configure alsa using "alsaconf". I tried "system alsa start" and it says that ALSA driver (version 10.0.9b) is already running. Then I checked if I have alsa-utils and it seems that it is already installed. However the the command "alsaconf" does not work. I checked both "/sbin/chkconfig --list sound" and "/sbin/chkconfig --list alsa" and both of them are: [root@localhost ~]# /sbin/chkconfig --list soundsound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off [root@localhost ~]# /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off I don't know what is on or what is off, but I think it means that it is on. I am all disappointed. :unsure: Anyone has any idea what can I do next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironfighter Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 A word of caution - I am a newbie :D (not an animal) :D but I had a few problems hearing sound on my system. The solution for me was to go into Mandrake Control Centre > Hardware > Hardware > Sound Card > Configure Module. See what options you´ve got and try the alternatives. It worked for me - hope it helps you ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
najand Posted March 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 Thank you. I have already done that, but I could not solve the problem. Everything seems fine there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
najand Posted March 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 Well, I doublechecked everything and everything seems fine, but still there is no sound.... What should I do? Anyone has any idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 Seems everything is cnfigured properly so that means it´s a mixer problem. Open a console and type: alsamixer Unmute every channel and try aain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 (edited) It may need a "model" option to be passed in /etc/modprobe.conf (or in the hardware options for sound via Mandrake Control Center)- like: options snd-emu10k1 model=????? or, as suggested in various forums, something like options snd-emu10k1 index=0 Don't ask me which model though, I do not know, nor I want to know anything about Creative hardware. Edited March 8, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalex20 Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 Well, I doublechecked everything and everything seems fine, but still there is no sound.... What should I do? Anyone has any idea? Open alsamixer or kmix or any else alsa-based mixer, and check that "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack" is muted if you've got analog speakers, or unmuted in case of digital ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
najand Posted March 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 I checked alsamix and all of options are unmuted and to the max. I am using analog speakers and the option you mentioned is also unmuted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalex20 Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 I checked alsamix and all of options are unmuted and to the max. I am using analog speakers and the option you mentioned is also unmuted. This option should be muted in case of analog speakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
najand Posted March 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Thank you for many replies. I checked both mute and unmute options and I still have no sound. Well, I found something. Even with muting that option with alsamixer, by rebooting the computer, the option unmutes automatically. Is there any possible problem with booting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
najand Posted March 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Thank you for many replies. I checked both mute and unmute options and I still have no sound. Well, I found something. Even with muting that option with alsamixer, by rebooting the computer, the option unmutes automatically. Is there any possible problem with booting? Well, Forgot to say that it happens even by usinf the alsactl store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arglen Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 (edited) try looking at menu > system > configuration > KDE > sound > sound system this shows a form with 2 tabs - general & hardware on the 'general' tab - enable the sound system on the 'hardware' tab - enable full duplex ( this one might be unnecessary) Edited March 18, 2006 by arglen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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