Audigy won't work

Zackqtip · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:42 pm Post subject:

The command 'grep audio /proc/pci' gives me this:

psofa · Guru Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 485

just a guess: in ur kernel source dir in a folder called scripts or sth theres a script called alsa ( i think again

) that creates the devices nodes needed by alsa. can u try this?
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psofa · Guru Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 485

oh yep its called makedev.snd!
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Zackqtip · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:02 am Post subject:

its there, so what do I do?
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psofa · Guru Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 485

sh ./makedev.snd i think
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Zackqtip · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject:

That command won't work from any directory. Any other ideas?
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Malakin · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 8:49 pm Post subject:

Here's the location of the file and note the case sensitivity, you'll have to run it from this directory. No idea if it will do anything for you though.
/usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.snd

Zackqtip · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

I tried that it didn't work. Malakin you got an Audigy working, correct? Could you post every step you took in getting it to work? I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
Zack
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Zackqtip · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

I tried that it didn't work. Malakin you got an Audigy working, correct? Could you post every step you took in getting it to work? I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
Zack
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Malakin · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 10:26 pm Post subject:

I didn't do anything special, just added support for it in the kernel, had "alsa" in my use flags already and it just worked. Have you tried a Knoppix cd to see if the sound works with it?

Zackqtip · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 10:28 pm Post subject:

how do I do that?
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Zackqtip · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 11:12 pm Post subject:

I have tried emerge all of the latest alsa stuff: alsa, alsa-utils, alsa-lib, alsa-driver. and I received all of the same errors as before when starting alsa and xmms and when trying to start a/alsamixer. In /etc/make.conf the USE section is as follows.

Zackqtip · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 2:37 am Post subject:

I ran MAKEDEV.snd and this is what occured when it ran. It didn't fix anything though.

Malakin · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:14 am Post subject:

I still think it's likely a kernel problem which was why I suggested disabling acpi/apic and maybe even a different pci slot.

What is the make/model of your motherboard? What is the exact model of audigy you have? audigy 1/audigy 2/audigy 2 zs etc..

Zackqtip · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:33 am Post subject:

I tried disabling acpi/apic to no avail also. My motherboard is the iWill 845GmP4G and the exact Audigy I have is the Audigy LS. The first version, NOT the second. grep audio /proc/pci returns this:

Malakin · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:02 am Post subject:

If you have a cd burner and broadband it's pretty simple to download and burn Knoppix, you could boot off of it and see if the sound works by default. If it does then it's probably just some kernel options that need fixing, if it doesn't then it could be more complicated.

Zackqtip · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:51 pm Post subject:

Well, this is embarassing, like an idiot, I actually removed ALL of the alsa files from my 2.6 kernel, so when I get home today I'm going to emerge a new kernel and retry getting alsa to work. I'll post my results, Hopefully this will work, if not, well, back to you. Thanks for all the positive feedback.
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That last one is unrelated. It is for the hardware random number generator. I've never gotten it to work so I disable it.
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Zackqtip · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 12:58 am Post subject:

I emerged a new kernel and tried to get sound working in it, but whenever I try to emerge alsa-drivers since it says that I do not have an alsadriver when I input this command: