luke9511 Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 hello everyone its been a while since i posted here so it feels good to post again :D, anyway i just reinstalled linux on an old computer i just recently got and it installed fine, etc but theres no sound, everything is turned on and everything, but it doesnt seem to work, after searching google and reading the posts on here and doing most of the stuff they said to do didnt help, now i can here some sort of static in the speakers but no sound comes out, so if anyone can give me any advice at all i would be greatfull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 Have you tried typing alsaconf from the command line to setup the sound card? Have you tried typing alsamixer from the command line to setup alsa settings for the sound card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke9511 Posted November 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 (edited) yes and yes and its a sound blaster 16 isa Edited November 11, 2006 by luke9511 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke9511 Posted November 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 ok i got it to work, just had to switch out the sound card for another one, but thanks for the help/advice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke9511 Posted November 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 ok i think i spoke to soon, when i go to test the sound i get an error, have been trying to get the error back but it wont come back for some reason, but i can play and hear cds, but if i play a mp3 i get a ticking sound in the speakers and also i can hear sounds from videos on the net, i looked in another post about the online video thing and the option someone gave to fix it didnt work for me, so if anyone else has some advice please let me know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke9511 Posted November 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 question, is there a reason why my ISA sound card i not in sounddrak, but yet alsa detected it and loaded a driver for it but yet i cant hear sound? and everything is not muted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 question, is there a reason why my ISA sound card i not in sounddrak, but yet alsa detected it and loaded a driver for it but yet i cant hear sound? and everything is not muted Because ISA is an ancient bus, which does not provide your kernel enough info about the device IRQ and BIOS interrupts. You said its a soundblaster 16 ISA. right? Try at first from a root console... ummm, leet me guess... say something like: modprobe snd-sb16 index=0 id="SB-16" port=0x220 mpu_port=0x330 irq=5 dma8=3 dma16=5 isapnp=0 If the module loads without errors, then you are ready to pass that thing to your modprobe.conf If not, you have to replace the above values I "guessed" with the right ones. For getting them, simply use commands like "cat/proc/interrupts", "cat/proc/ioports", "cat/proc/dma" and so it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke9511 Posted November 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 i did that command in the console and i didnt get any errors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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