Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook + Debian = Halt?

[chiappa]

Hi there,

Has anyone managed to get Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS for notebooks (pcmcia)
working on debian? On kubuntu it worked fine. But Debian halts once I
insert the card or when it is detected in the start up.

I have: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge), with kernel: Linux 2.4.27-3-686.

All ideas appriciated! Thx!

[Vergil83]

I have a feeling it is the fact you are using the 2.4 kernel. kubuntu uses 2.6

[chiappa]

Thx! The Linux kernel version 2.6.8-3-686 stopped the halt on card
detection. But I am still unable to get sound out of the device.

I have two sound cards of which the other is an internal SiS chip using the intel8x0 module which works fine.

lspci -v says:

0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
Sound Controller (rev a0)
Subsystem: Wistron Corp.: Unknown device 2000
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 173, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=128]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

0000:02:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs: Unknown device 0008
Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 2001
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 4000 [disabled] [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

cardctl says:

Socket 0:
product info: "CREATIVE", "CARDBUS AUDIO"
manfid: 0x012b, 0x0101
function: 254 ((null))

/etc/modules.conf seems abit messy after all the configuration.. you can
have a look at it here: http://www.wizmelee.net/modules_conf_emu10k1.txt

What i have pretty much done is:

Selected the two drivers (intel8x0 & emuk10k1) with: dpkg-reconfigure
alsa-source.

Built & installed the alsa module with module-assistant.

When i run alsaconf, select emuk10k1 (intel8x0 works fine). It does the
configuration ok, but the last step (preparing the card for playing, loading
alsa driver) halts. Also just doing modprobe snd-emu10k1 makes the system
freeze.

I noticed that they are already listed in lsmod but no sound comes out of
/dev/dsp1,2or3. /dev/dsp or dsp0 works fine for the SiS soundcard.

heres my lsmod: http://www.wizmelee.net/lsmod_emu10k1.txt