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speng

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Registered: 2009-01-17

Posts: 136

[SOLVED]Configuring ALSA with Audigy 4 Properly

So a few minutes ago I realised I had an Audigy 4 lying around, so I popped it in and it got detected in alsa, I rebooted just to try it again and now I'm getting sound BUT!

The sound is coming from "SigmaTel STAC9750,51) OSS PCM and is outputted via Audigy Master/Front channel which is right.
But what the hell is SigmaTel? Hmm...

MODULES=(ndiswrapper usblp uvcvideo !b43 !forcedeth snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss
snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-device snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore snd-usb-audio snd-usb-lib c-qcam)

Prior to using Audigy 4 I was using on-board audio, I tried adding snd-emu10kx but apparently it didn't exist? Hmm.
How would I go about setting it up PROPERLY? I want to be able to use this sound card to its full potential and hardware mixing if possible.
I have read the wiki/googled but I haven't been able to find anything that works.

Thanks in advance, I know this might be an easy one.

Edit: emu10k1 was the proper name for the module, it hasn't made any difference at all though.

[speng@spengpc ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Audigy2        ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 4 [SB0610]
                      Audigy 4 [SB0610] (rev.0, serial:0x10211102) at 0x9c00, irq 18
 1 [U0x46d0x8ca    ]: USB-Audio - USB Device 0x46d:0x8ca
                      USB Device 0x46d:0x8ca at usb-0000:00:0b.1-3, high speed
[speng@spengpc ~]$

Last edited by speng (2009-01-28 21:05:09)

capnfabs

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From: Wollongong, Australia

Registered: 2008-12-27

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Re: [SOLVED]Configuring ALSA with Audigy 4 Properly

Well, SigmaTel is a semiconductor company, from what I can gather from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SigmaTel.

SigmaTel probably had something to do with the production on either your Audigy4 or your Onboard Audio.

I don't know if this will help, but to set up my sound card properly I had to run alsaconf, as detailed in this wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALS … s_and_test.

Another possible option is to investigate the use of the file /etc/asound.conf (I don't have a very good understanding of it but know that you can do some powerful stuff with it).

Good luck!

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: [SOLVED]Configuring ALSA with Audigy 4 Properly

for one thing, make sure the onboard sound is disabled in the BIOS just to be sure

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speng

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Registered: 2009-01-17

Posts: 136

Re: [SOLVED]Configuring ALSA with Audigy 4 Properly

Thanks, everything seemed to be in order.

I'll check out what I can do with asound and I had disabled onboard sound.

Thanks