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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    [kde-linux] OT configuring ALSA
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2004-10-24 4:36:48
Message-ID: 417B3160.9050503 () acm ! org
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Henry Holland Simms wrote:
> I have used Mandrake since building my 'puter.However I started with 8.2 
> powerpack then 9.1 then 10.0 and 10.1 I cannot get my sound to work and 
> it is hit or miss on keeping the printer going with 10-10.1.It has been 
> very frustrating as I have been trying to get sound since July,to no 
> avail many mandrake'experts tell me that my audigy card is not supported 
> yet it worked on 8.2 and 9.1.I have 3 harddrives each with a different 
> distro of mandrake.It also seems that 8.2 was better at getting RPM's 
> loaded as under 10 I load the RPM's and then get dependency failure 
> notices.8.2 seemed to warn you before or ask permission to load what it 
> needed.I am very didinchantedI had hoped for an alternative to MSXP. 
> Mandrake 8.2 with a later mozilla would be better for me than any 
> subsequent mandrake distro.I personally cannot tell if kernal2.6 is much 
> of an advance over 2.4 and my investment in mandrake 10 and services has 
> been a waste of time and nervous energy,not to mention audigy EX 
> platinum and a high-end THX speaker set-up.

This is probably an example of the problem with distros.

They try to make things simple, but these things are not complicated to begin 
with, and if the simplification doesn't work, your are out of luck.

Getting ALSA to work is a matter of having the correct stuff in your: 
"/etc/modules.conf" file.  This is simple to do, you just copy and paste from 
the ALSA web site:

IIUC, this is what you need for your sound card:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labs&card=Sound+Blaster+Audigy2+ZS+Value.&chip=emu10k2%2C+P17&module=emu10k1


         # ALSA portion
         alias char-major-116 snd
         alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
         # module options should go here

         # OSS/Free portion
         alias char-major-14 soundcore
         alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

         # card #1
         alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
         alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
         alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
         alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
         alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

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JRT
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