[techtalk] sound card

[Kath]

Oh god, I still have not been able to compile emu10k1 successfully by an
method :\

- Kath

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gina Lanik" <geek.grrl at chello.at>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] sound card


>
> hm, sounds like a RedHat system to me... I got myself a SoundBlaster
> PCI512 which actually uses emu10k1, funny enough that kudzu (sp?) in RH
> 6.2 detected and configured the card automagically.... in Debian Potato
> (my main system now) it was a lot harder ;-)
>
> have fun,
>
> Gina
>
> On Sat, 06 Jan 2001 22:02:39 CST, Lyta Alexander writes:
> >On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Elizabeth Wright wrote:
> >>
> >> i've got instructions on how to configure the sound system.  i log in
as
> >> root, stick in the first cd that came with the book, and start an
x-terminal
> >> session.  i type sndconfig and get their little blue magic window.  it
has
> >> the correct sound card detected (i've got a Creative SoundBlaster Live
card)
> >> but when it runs the test, I dont hear anything.  i've tried locating
the
> >> card manually by looking in the /proc directory (which didnt do
anything if
> >> i remember right) and also by looking through the boot log <more
> >> /var/log/dmesg>, which detected the correct card, but once again
running the
> >> test I dont hear a thing.  I dont get any warning beeps or bells ever
> >> (althogh I'm not sure that I ever should... since i've never seen/heard
> >> what's supposed to happen when i do various things).
> >try as root typing : lsmod
> >you are looking for a module called emu10k1
> >if it is there maybe the volume is get very low by default, you probably
> >have a mixer program installed though i've no idea what gui mixers there
> >are
> >if lsmod doesn't show the emu10k1 module
> >modprobe emu10k1
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> whee!!  i'm finally playing with linux! this is so fun!  i've got scads
to
> >> learn, and no time!  but i love learning things.  ok yeah i think
that's it.
> >> sorry it's so long... anybody have ideas for me?
> >:)
> >>
> >> thanks a million,
> >> bets
>
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