SB Live!: No sound mixing.

whargoul · 2005-06-26 18:59:01

Well I have finally got my SoundBlaster Live! working, but I have no sound mixing so I can here multiple sounds. In the past I used my onboard soundcard, and I used the little trick ind the wiki (http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Al … 0at%20once the dmix part) to play multiple sounds. Could it be the /etc/asound.conf file or the /etc/libao.conf file? Or both?

glitz · 2005-06-26 19:28:39

Are you using the latest ALSA version? 1.0.9 should have sound mixing "out of the box" (bit of a misnomer, but it's a start..). Check this thread for some more info.

Strange 'though, I thought a SB Live! would have had hardware mixing..

whargoul · 2005-06-26 21:15:12

I am using the latest version of ALSA.

I have tried to remove /etc/asound.conf and /etc/libao.conf, but when I try to play musik from SMMS and Rhythmbox, it says that /dev/dsp is busy. And yes, I have been tould that SB Live! should have hardware mixer, which is confusing me.

paranoos · 2005-06-26 21:34:56

I have a SB Live Value Digital, and it has full hardware mixing supported by alsa. I have 2 instances of XMMS running with the OSS driver enabled (rather than using the proper alsa driver), as well as mpd running using alsa. Everything's working fine.

I have a feeling your /dev/dsp is pointing to your onboard card, and not the SBLive. Try using the proper alsa driver, and change the Audio Device from default to the SBLive entry, and see if that works.

whargoul · 2005-06-26 21:36:50

I am not quite sure what you means. Show me a example.

paranoos · 2005-06-26 21:39:27

you said you are having problems with SMMS. I assume you mean XMMS. Go to the properties and change the driver from OSS to ALSA. In the ALSA properties, change the Audio Device to SBLive instead of "default". I think the "default" is pointing to your onboard audio device.

whargoul · 2005-06-26 21:54:11

Well I have change "default" to "CA0106: CA0106 (hw:0,0)". But the sound is very bad. Do you have any idea?

paranoos · 2005-06-26 22:03:08

afaik ca0106 is for audigy ls. i thought you had a sblive. you're loading the wrong modules, or you're not sure what hardware you have.

if you load the wrong module, you shouldn't get any sound at all i would think.

please get everything straightened out, and let us know the whole story here.

also, please explain what "the sound is very bad" means. is it distorted? is it muffled? sounds like it's underwater? if it's distorted, you can fix it easily by turning down the PCM volume in alsamixer. I find a value of 71 sounds clean on my hardware.

whargoul · 2005-06-26 22:24:49

Well here is the story:

I have always got this annoying message:

PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically.  If this
** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
** driver failed to call pci_enable_device().  As a temporary
** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
** behavior.  If this argument makes the device work again,
** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas@hp.com
** so I can fix the driver.

So of course i e-mail Bjorn Helgaas, and he told me it just was a annoying message and my soundcard should work. And it did.

Here is "lspci" output (some of it):

01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs: Unknown device 0007

I used "alsaconf" to configure my card and it worked just fine. Accept that i can't play multiple sounds.

The sound? Well the sound comes and goes, and comes and goes. It is a little bit hard to explain.

P.S. I hope that was enough infomation.

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#1 2005-06-26 18:59:01

SB Live!: No sound mixing.

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Re: SB Live!: No sound mixing.

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