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#1 2009-04-16 00:50:21

epsilon
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Registered: 2009-04-02
Posts: 75

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE problems

Alright first of all I am new to Linux in general.

I have two soundcards in my computer. One is an onboard card (Intel) that is faulty and doesn't work; another is a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE which does work.

My problem, of course, is getting the latter to work.

So I realize this is nothing new, searching the forums and reading ALSA's wiki. However there seems to be some issues with making this work on ALSA, so is there a way to configure this with OSS?

"lspci | grep audio" returns both soundcards:
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster


"ossdetect -v" returns:
Detected Sound Blaster Audigy LS / Live7.1
Detected Intel AC97 (ICH5)
USB support available in the system, adding USB driver
Detected Generic USB audio/MIDI device (BETA)

I use "soundoff" and "soundon", then "osstest":
Sound subsystem and version: OSS 4.1 (b 1052/200903241101) (0x00040100)
Platform: Linux/i686 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 8 12:47:56 UTC 2009

*** Scanning sound adapter #-1 ***
/dev/oss/oss_audigyls0/pcm0 (audio engine 0): AudigyLS front
- Performing audio playback test...
  <left> Device returned error: Input/output error
/dev/oss/oss_audigyls0/pcm1 (audio engine 2): AudigyLS center/lfe
- Performing audio playback test...
  <left> Device returned error: Input/output error
/dev/oss/oss_audigyls0/pcm2 (audio engine 3): AudigyLS surround
- Performing audio playback test...
  <left> Device returned error: Input/output error
/dev/oss/oss_audigyls0/pcm3 (audio engine 4): AudigyLS 5.1 output
- Skipping multi channel device

*** Scanning sound adapter #1 ***
/dev/oss/oss_ich0/pcm0 (audio engine 9): Intel ICH5 (24D5)
- Performing audio playback test...
  <left> OK <right> OK <stereo> OK <measured srate 47982.00 Hz (-0.04%)>

*** Some errors were detected during the tests ***


Basically it seems like it detects the crappy onboard sound (which is unusable, I stress) and not my soundcard. I really don't know how to fix/configure this and sound is really important to me if I'll be using Arch.

Thanks for any help offered, if more information about something is needed I'll be more than happy to oblige.


mu @ freenode - Last.fm

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#2 2009-04-16 11:17:30

onguarde
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Registered: 2008-09-14
Posts: 144

Re: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE problems

Here's my logs on switching to OSS. U might find it useful.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 61#p536661

I think its important to follow the wiki carefully with regards to removing alsa, rebooting etc.

Conclusion being ALSA support is way better on Audigy2. So, u might wanna try ALSA instead.

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#3 2009-04-17 21:58:52

epsilon
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Registered: 2009-04-02
Posts: 75

Re: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE problems

Anymore help? It's hard to extrapolate data like those logs since I don't have much experience with this OS. I'll be trying to figure this out in the mean time, but some tips would be really helpful.


mu @ freenode - Last.fm

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#4 2009-04-17 22:24:23

vor_lord
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From: Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Registered: 2004-06-10
Posts: 52

Re: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE problems

I would start by disabling the on board sound in your BIOS if you are not going to use it.  As a novice user much of the documentation kind of covers the simpler case and this might help you navigate them better.

Keep in mind the Audigy SE is not a real Audigy (like Audigy 2 which has very good linux support).  If you are just looking for straightforward playback you should have no trouble, but you will not get hardware mixing with SE IIRC.

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