Re: Fw: PROBLEM: SB Live! 5.1 (emu10k1, rev. 0a) doesn't work with 2.6.15

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:54:22 +0000,
Nick Warne wrote:
> 
> > > i've compiled vanilla 2.6.15 and my sound card doesn't work anymore.
> > > i can see it in kmix (and adjust the volumes, too), it appears in
> > > dmesg (at ALSA devices), xmms & mplayer doesn't say anything about
> > > errors, but it doesn't make any sound.
> > > the onboard soundcard, via8233, works well with the same 2.6.15.
> > > sb live! works well with 2.6.14.2 and previous.
> > > i'm using an updated Slackware.
> > >
> > > if you have any questions i'll answer.
> >
> > First check /proc/asound/cards to see whether the emu10k1 model is
> > detected properly.  If '[Unknown]' is shown, your model is not
> > listed in the whitelist.
> >
> > There was a bug that the front control conflicts with ac97 and emu10k1
> > dsp which was already fixed in the latest version (at least on
> > 2.6.16-rc3).
> 
> For what it is worth, I had issues with my SB Live! but as this all
> (appeared) to start when my CPU died and I had to reset BIOS or if I
> did indeed move up to 2.6.15 at around the same time I can't remember
> (2.6.15 release and CPU died all around same date) - refer to the
> following:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/11/4
> 
> As stated the solution for me was to update alsa-utils and alsa-libs
> which fixed the issues I was getting - I found that if one of the
> 'controls' (15, I think?) was invalid at boot, all the volume settings
> in alsamixer got set to '0' (i.e. mute/turned off) - no sound.

Such a problem is usually because of init script rather alsa-lib
version.  It should call alsactl with -F option.


Takashi