Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932242AbWBMS5F (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:57:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932299AbWBMS5F (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:57:05 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:55277 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932242AbWBMS5E (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:57:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:56:58 +0100 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Nick Warne Cc: Andrew Morton , Jaroslav Kysela , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fw: PROBLEM: SB Live! 5.1 (emu10k1, rev. 0a) doesn't work with 2.6.15 In-Reply-To: <7c3341450602131054k71e3a8c4o@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060213040900.1e360292.akpm@osdl.org> <7c3341450602131054k71e3a8c4o@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.5 (beta21) (corn) (+CVS-20050720) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1854 Lines: 44 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/