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Grady

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 10

Problems with ALSA and Audigy 2

I have a Audigy 2 Value card in my box and it has been working fine under Gentoo, SuSe and Kubuntu. But with Arch I can't get it to work. I have followed the wiki and installed all the alsa stuff, but it won't find the card!
I can modprobe snd-emu10k1 and then all the modules show up when I check with lsmod. Dmesg tells me that there's a Creative Audigy 2 installed, but when I run alsamixer i just get
"alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device"
both as root and as a user. I've added the user to the audio group.
Running alsaconf just locks up Konsole.
I've tested this with both devfs and udev.
Running 2.6.10 and the latest alsa.
Does anyone know what might be wrong?
Should I compile a newer kernel?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
radeon                136340  0
i2c_nforce2             7040  0
i2c_core               23296  1 i2c_nforce2
snd_emu10k1           100868  0
snd_rawmidi            26144  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_seq_device          8972  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec         78176  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm_oss            56612  0
snd_mixer_oss          21120  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm               101252  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              27140  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         10244  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            4992  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep              10116  1 snd_emu10k1
snd                    59108  9 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore              10848  1 snd
uhci_hcd               34576  0
parport_pc             28996  0
parport                38600  1 parport_pc
pcspkr                  4044  0
rtc                    13128  0
shpchp                100996  0
pci_hotplug            34748  1 shpchp
forcedeth              18560  0
usbhid                 45824  0
ehci_hcd               35332  0
ohci_hcd               23560  0
usbcore               125560  5 uhci_hcd,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
evdev                   9984  0

mattux

Member

Registered: 2004-04-22

Posts: 81

Re: Problems with ALSA and Audigy 2

you should try to compile a newer kernel or install alsa-driver outside the kernel...

Grady

Member

Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 10

Re: Problems with ALSA and Audigy 2

I just compiled my first kernel ever, and it booted! Woot! Networking, IDE and sound works perfect!
Thanks for the reply!

mattux

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Registered: 2004-04-22

Posts: 81

Re: Problems with ALSA and Audigy 2

you r lucky boy first kernel... all devices work correct ... great...

mattux