Re: Fedora Core 3 & Dell 4700

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

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,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.bobcatos.com
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