 | | | Fedora Core 3 & Dell 4700 | Fedora Core 3 & Dell 4700 2004-12-28 - By Bob McClure Jr
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On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:10:27PM -0500, mylar wrote:
> Hi, I rarely ask for help and usually figure things out myself but I am
> faced with an issue here involving a recently purchased desktop.
>
> My Dad recently bought a brand new Dell 4700 Desktop machine with MS
> Windows XP pre-installed. On his request I added a IDE hard drive into
> the machine onto which I installed Fedora Core 3 and made it into a dual
> boot machine.
>
> Everything works fine except for the Creative Soundblaster sound card.
> According to Dell's hardware list for the machine and according to the
> Windows XP devices manager the card is a "Creative "Soundblaster Live
> 24-bit" PCI sound card. Also referencing the model number stamped on the
> bottom of the card itself it is a "Soundblaster Live 24-Bit"
>
> However when I ran "lspci" under Linux it reports the card as a
> "Creative Soundblaster Audigy LS". So I downloaded and built the
> appropriate ALSA modules with Audigy LS support inserted them into the
> kernel, ran "lsmod" to make sure things were in place and I got
> bupkis... no audio, no sound, nothing...nada...zilch!!!
Sorry to ask the obvious, but we have to check these things. Did you
bring up a mixer (say, xmixer) and verify the levels were up? By
default, they are all the way down.
> Since I have checked the Creative website for info and I have googled
> around for info on the "Soundblaster Live 24-Bit" but I've come up
> relatively empty concerning any Linux drivers for this card or workable
> solutions. Has anyone out there got a similar card to work ?
>
> Does anyone have any ideas or has gotten such a card to work under
> Linux ? Or will I need to replace the card with a card that hjas better
> Linux support.. Any recommendations. It's kinda embarrassing when the
> Windows side has perfect sound but the Linux side has no sound at all.
> :{
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Mylar
Cheers,
--
Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure@(protected) http://www.bobcatos.com
"...And His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God,
the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." - Isaiah 9:6
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