Sound card problem

**Hiram** · 01-13-2005

Just this morning I've installed Mandrake 10.1, but I can't load any audio up, it says my sound card is not installed. I know it can see it, because in the installer it was there. I also know it's not defective as I'm also running Windows XP on the same computer, and it plays audio just fine.

So I was wondering if there is anything like driver installation for the card, and if so, where can I go to get it?

The sound card is a Creatlive Labs Ectiva 5.1.

Thanks.

**Leper Khan** · 01-13-2005

what is the interface of your soundcard? PCI? I have the same problem with my old machine, because my soundcard is not a PCI interfaced soundcard (I think the interface is ISA), it does not detect it. I have no idea how to fix it, I just plan on getting a new soundcard, eventually.

**Hiram** · 01-13-2005

It's PCI, yes. It does detect it, it just doesn't have the apparent drivers installed for it. And I'm not going to buy a new sound card, I paid around 70 dollars for this one, and I haven't had it more than two weeks.

**Mord** · 01-14-2005

I believe that uses the ES1371 chipset:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=ens1371

**Hiram** · 01-15-2005

When I went to install the driver, it said that the ES1371 sound card was not there, so I'm guessing that it doesn't use that chipset.

**puntmuts** · 01-15-2005

When I do some searching on the net, I see Creative soundcards and I see Ectiva soundcards. Both are manufacturers. So are you sure you have the right model mentioned in your post ?

Maybe the output of lspci -v (as root) will give some more information

Only information about the multimedia controller(s) will be sufficient. Sample of output of my card (SBLive):

Code:

00&#58;0d.0 Multimedia audio controller&#58; Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 &#40;rev 04&#41;
        Subsystem&#58; Creative Labs CT4850 SBLive! Value
        Flags&#58; bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at cc00 &#91;size=32&#93;
        Capabilities&#58; &#91;dc&#93; Power Management version 1

**Hiram** · 01-15-2005

When I look at the card in Mandrake, it says it's a SBLive! Value EMU10K1X. In Windows it's saying it's a Creative Labs card, and on the box of the soundcard, it says Ectiva 5.1.

Edit:

Code:

02&#58;0a.0 Multimedia audio controller&#58; Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1X
        Subsystem&#58; Creative Labs&#58; Unknown Device 1004
        Flags&#58; bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
        I/O ports at b400 &#91;size=32&#93;
        Capabilities&#58; &#91;dc&#93; Power Management version 2

**puntmuts** · 01-15-2005

The EMU10K1 is supported by alsa and by oss. You'll need to load either the emu10k1 modules (OSS) or snd-emu10k1 (ALSA) .

**Hiram** · 01-16-2005

I've loaded the OSS modules, and it says there is no available mixer. I've also tried loading the ASLA modules, but when I load them, it can't even find a compatible sound card. So what can I do about th mixer settings for the OSS modules?

**puntmuts** · 01-16-2005

Did you unload the OSS modules before trying the alsa modules (rmmod module name) ? I can list my modules:

Code:

snd_pcm_oss            48484 
snd_mixer_oss          17504  
snd_emu10k1            91332 
snd_rawmidi            19104  
snd_seq_device          6796  
snd_ac97_codec         73440  
snd_pcm                82856  
snd_timer              20164  
snd_page_alloc          7524  
snd_util_mem            3232  
snd_hwdep               6916  
snd                    45508   
soundcore               6848

Try loading these after you unloaded any other sound related module. You could also try to run alsaconf to do the detection automaticly.

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