Mandrake 10.1 Sound Problems

Question

Hello, I've downloaded and installed Mandrake 10.1 on my Dell Dimension 4600. Everything works great except that I get no sound. I ran 'lspci' and I got: 02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X 02:02.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] Input device controller and the sound driver was assigned in Mandrake config utility. Still, I get no sound and was wondering if anybody could help with this. Thank you, Victor.

victorsk · Answer

Hi,   Thanks for the reply.  Yes, I've checked everything.  I've narrowed down the problem to the fact that Dell uses snd-EMU10K1X driver as opposed to snd-EMU10K1 (please note no 'X').  So, the system assigned me snd-EMU10K1 instead of ...1X.  Do you know how to add the EMU10K1X driver to the list of sound drivers in Linux?  I'll very much appreciate any help in this matter.   Thank you, Victor.

holljac · Answer

Have you checked kmix to be sure it's not just muted?

holljac · Answer

As root, open up the /etc/modprobe.conf file. In there you should find a line similar to this:

alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1

Modify that line to read

alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1x

This will load the 1x module at boot instead of the current one.

victorsk · Answer

Hi, Thanks for the reply.  Sweeet!  I'll try that.  I was just about thinking of compiling driver into kernel and such.  I'll try your advise for sure.  Thank you. Victor.

victorsk · Answer

Hi,

I've tried the method you've suggested and although I can now see snd-emu10k1x driver as the sound card description, the driver Module assigned is still snd-emu10k1, not ...k1x Also, when starting the Linux in Verbose mode (listing all the drivers being installed), I get something like "Sound Card initialization" [FAILED]. Do you have any more ideas on what to do? Sorry it didn't work, I through it would.

Thank you,
Victor.

Linux General

Was this post helpful?