Guest CJNINE Posted August 4, 2007 Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 i have mandriva 2007 free and i can't get my soundcard to work with mandriva it worked with fedora 7 and windows xp it's a sb live sound card please let me know what to do thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orts Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 i have mandriva 2007 free and i can't get my soundcard to work with mandriva it worked with fedora 7 and windows xp it's a sb live sound card please let me know what to do thanks Welcome on board Please open konsole, and write this lspci |grep Multimedia and show us the output. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CJNINE Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 thanks for your replies but i somehow figured it out lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steppenwolf Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 Should I start a new thread or take over this one? :-) I've got the same problem like the original poster: an old PC (ISA?) sound card, a Soundblaster AW64 I think, isn't enabled by Mandrake Spring 2007 (Free). With the previously installed Opensuse 10.1 (which I kicked because of the MS deal) the same soundlaster worked, so basically it will "somehow" I guess. Doing "lspci" doesn't list any "multimedia" devices. Where should I look at next? How could I report the relevant boot messages concerning the sound card? Because when Mandriva boots and I hit ESC, there are a few lines saying something about the sound card. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 an old PC (ISA?) sound card, a Soundblaster AW64 I think, isn't enabled by Mandrake Spring 2007 (Free). If you are sure that this is an ISA card: You will need to install isapnptools and isapnptools-devel with your package manager or urpmi. Then if you reboot it may pick it up? If not, look in /lib/modules/your-kernel-version/kernel/sound/isa/sb, the module should be there? I would suggest trying snd-sbawe with, as root modprobe snd-sbawe then with your gui hardware manager, or in a terminal as root using alsamixer see if your card is working. If not, try another module in the same directory. When you have found a working module, you can add it to /etc/modprobe.preload so it loads at boot. Please let us know it you have any questions? How could I report the relevant boot messages concerning the sound card? Please post the output of dmesg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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