where to start on sound?

nutbar21 · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 205 Location: USA

Hi! I'm new to gentoo.... I have a sound blaster live card and I have absolutely no clue where to start to set it up properly. I have xorg and fluxbox working fine but I still need sound. Thanks in advance if you can tell me where to begin!
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blackhorse · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:47 pm Post subject:

Do you have your soundcard module start up?
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nutbar21 · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 205 Location: USA

I included all the sound drivers I would need when I compiled the kernel, if that's what you mean.
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blackhorse · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:00 pm Post subject:

In that case do you have the one you need autostart by putting it into the /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.(4 or 6, whatever you have)?
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nutbar21 · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 205 Location: USA

Okay, I just went in there and had a look around (running 2.6, btw). Nothing is in my kernel-2.6 file (except the commented stuff that explains what to put there).

I guess my question is how would I know what, exactly, to put in this file? I don't have a clue what the module name would be, nor do I recall creating a module... during the kernel configuration I just told it to "include" the drivers, not modulate.
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blackhorse · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:28 pm Post subject:

You can try to emerge emu10k1, and that may get it to work. If not you are going to have to fix some things in your kernel. Emu10k1 may get it to work all by itself though.
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nutbar21 · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 205 Location: USA

Okay, I'll give that a shot - I just tried "emerge alsa-driver" for my particular driver (es1371), it's an older sound blaster card which recognizes as an eesoniq. The emerge failed because it says it's already included in the kernel.

Btw - just tried emu10k1 - it's only compatible with 2.4 kernels and I have 2.6
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blackhorse · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject:

As well as making a lot of things in your kernel modules, you can try to emerge alsa-utils.
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nutbar21 · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 205 Location: USA

That did the trick! Thanks so much!

On a side note, the quality is much better than the crap I had under Fedora

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blackhorse · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:35 pm Post subject:

Glad to help

. You should probably put a [SOLVED] on the end of the title.
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