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#1 2007-06-09 21:06:23
- mac57
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No Sound - SoundBlaster CT4730. Suggestions?
I have just loaded Arch Linux 2007-05 onto my newly built vintage Pentium Pro 200 box. This machine has a SoundBlaster CT4730 card in it, but I am getting no sound output. The card is known to be good, since I have Windows NT 4.0 SP6a also on the machine, and it produces sound just fine. So, the hardware is working.
lspci reports that the card is a Creative Labs Ectiva EV1938.
Arch auto loads module snd-ens1371 for this card. There is also a module called snd-es1938, but it is not loaded by Arch. Manually modprobe'ing it doesn't seem to help.
The problem is that everything seems to be set up properly. I can see the sound device in any variety of mixers, I have repeatedly confirmed that it is not muted, and that the volumes are turned up. I have run and rerun alsaconf, hoping to resolve this, to no end. All my sound apps, right now to the humble command line "play" command work just fine - they seem to think that they are playing sound; it is just that no sound is actually being produced. I am not sure where to turn next.
Does anyone have sound working under Arch on a SoundBlaster CT4730, or any other EV1938 based card?
Any and all suggestions MOST welcome! Thanks.
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#2 2007-06-09 21:39:19
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Re: No Sound - SoundBlaster CT4730. Suggestions?
Tried snd-ens1370?
If it doesn't work with ALSA, you might try with OSS.
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#3 2007-06-10 04:13:05
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Re: No Sound - SoundBlaster CT4730. Suggestions?
Thanks lucke, yes I tried snd-ens1370 too - no luck. I have turned up a lot of postings on the web about this very issue - everything seems OK from a software perspective but there is no sound coming out.
Still hoping that there may be an Arch user out there who has a CT4730 (I think it was marked as the SoundBlaster Vibra 128 - I don't know for sure as I got this one from eBay) and has got it to work. Anyone?
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