Audio with a Sound Blaster Audigy 2

[jernau]

Hi -

I'm having trouble getting my audio working with the latest distro. I checked ALSA in the kernel management, and it's configured in there. Also, I took a look at the two sound card post on this board, since I have a MB native card and a PCI card. I ran through what that guy did, with slight modifications and had no luck. I'm fairly new to Linux so my understanding of packages is not extensive. However, I installed Portato and updated my portage db and layman one as well. Despite this I couldn't find any active creative drivers, or emu10k2 drivers. Anyone have a clue?

[edgevision]

Hi jerneau and welcome to the Sabayon forums! Hopefully we'll get your sound up and running in no time. Have you tried to check if the drivers are being loaded upon startup? To check loaded modules, try:

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lsmod

in a terminal window (as root.)

[joost]

Try running alsaconf as root.

And post your lspci.

[jernau]

Ok, I tried the three things ya'll suggested. When I run alsaconf I get the following :

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localhost jernau # alsaconf
modinfo: could not find module snd
modinfo: could not find module snd
modinfo: could not find module snd
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After that it DOES load the alsa configuration tool, and detects both my cards. I can then choose the one I want, allow it to modify the file as it runs a script, and then it says that it's ready to go and to use my preferred mixer to set the sound levels. Unfortunately, I still didn't get any sound.

my lsmod looks like this -

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Module Size Used by
snd_rtctimer 5600 0
snd_seq_midi 10752 0
snd_emu10k1_synth 8960 0
snd_emux_synth 36608 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 9088 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 8064 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_dummy 5508 0
snd_seq_oss 33920 0
snd_seq_midi_event 9472 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 56096 9 snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
vboxdrv 1629184 0
nvidia 8116024 38
r8169 33032 0
snd_emu10k1 140064 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi 28160 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 114648 1 snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus 4224 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device 10004 8 snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_util_mem 6656 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 11912 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
iTCO_wdt 13648 0
iTCO_vendor_support 5764 1 iTCO_wdt
pcspkr 4736 0
sky2 47112 0
snd_hda_intel 309536 0
i2c_i801 10652 0
i2c_core 28672 2 nvidia,i2c_i801
intel_agp 29216 0
joydev 12800 0
tg3 109188 0
e1000 123584 0
scsi_wait_scan 2816 0
sl811_hcd 14720 0
uhci_hcd 27040 0
ehci_hcd 35852 0

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and my lspci looks like this

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localhost jernau # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation SATA Controller 1 IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation SATA Controller 2 IDE (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0295 (rev a 1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 4364 ( rev 12)
04:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Con troller (rev 02)
04:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Contr oller (rev 02)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Et hernet (rev 10)
05:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value
05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Contro ller (PHY/Link)

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I hope that's the stuff ya'll were asking for. Thank you very much for the extremely fast responses, I was pleasantly surprised.
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[jernau]

I still haven't been able to get this thing pushing sound. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem or anything? I'm at a loss.

[jernau]

Right, so I figured out what the problem was. alsaconf didn't umute the audigy selection...

and I didn't scroll all the way over in alsamixer

so, sound's working now and I'm going to go hang my head in shame