Need Help Installing Audigy2 in FC4

[Rockhopper-1]

I've been running a Mythtv/FC4 box for about a month now and everything has worked fairly well. When I built the box, I was under the impression that the motherboard had built-in 5.1 surround sound support, but it turns out it doesn't. So I purchased a nice Audigy2 card for the computer. This is where my problems began.

For whatever reason, I can't seem to get the card recognized. I've done tons of google searching, removed and re-installed Alsa, modified the modprobe.conf file and disabled my on-board sound, but none of it seems to work. It's not just that the card isn't outputting any sound, the system itself isn't even recognizing the card. No matter what I seem to do, FC4 seems to always be looking for my onboard via-82xx sound card.

In a nutshell, I need some help/guidance on what needs to be done to get FC4 to recognize my Audigy2 card. Thanks.

[ComputerTime]

Hi,

Firstly, Can FC4 support Audigy2? Sometimes, the hardware is too new and FC4 do not recognised the hardware, and so there isn't any driver available. You may like to try searching for the LINUX driver for Audigy 2, and try install to software.

[scoon]

Hey there,

I have an Audigy 2zs. fc4 supports it just fine. lspci will list your cards. One thing that could help you with this would be for you to disable your onboard sound in your bios. Look for help with your card here as well:http://www.alsa-project.org/

regards,
scoon

[neubus]

I need help I cannot seem to get 5.1 surround sound to work properly.
here is what I have done so far.

I have -
- Sound Blaster Audigy 2 value pci soundcard
- Audigy 2 Value [SB0400]
- SigmaTel STAC9750,51
- Alsa v1.0.10
- Fedora Core 4 ( 2.6.11-1.1369 )



I've installed Alsa rpm's ok

alsaconf detected and setup ok

unmuted "Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack" using alsamixer
(this enables the soundcard to produce sound for some reason)

changed settings in xine (a media player)
- audio driver to use = alsa
- speaker setup = Surround 5.1

xine gives an error of another program using the PCM device.

I put this in /etc/asound.conf
http://sabi.co.uk/Cfg/ALSA/asound.conf

Can now run xine.

testing sound using "speaker-test -c6"
- only produces sound on the front speakers but puts it to all speakers
- ie Frontleft + Rearleft + Sub on the Front Left test
- ie Frontright + Rearright + center on the Front Right test

- adjusting volume controls in alsamixer while playing xine does control indivitual speakers (Front, Surround, LFE)
but the PCM controls for the same do nothing to the volume.

/etc/modules.conf looks like this

alias eth0 via-rhine

# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.9rc4a ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

speaker-test -c6 -Dsurround51 #produces

speaker-test 0.0.8

Playback device is surround51
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib conf.c:1592snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:51:23:No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:2837snd_config_hook_load) /etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:2700snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:1969snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM surround51 definition (id: surround51, value: cards.pcm.surround51)
Playback open error: -22,Invalid argument
ALSA lib pcm.c:1969snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM surround51 definition (id: surround51, value: cards.pcm.surround51)
Playback open error: -22,Invalid argument

speaker-test -c6 -Dplug:surround51 #produces

speaker-test 0.0.8

Playback device is plug:surround51
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib conf.c:1592snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:51:23:No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:2837snd_config_hook_load) /etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:2700snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:1969snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM surround51 definition (id: surround51, value: cards.pcm.surround51)
Playback open error: -22,Invalid argument
ALSA lib pcm.c:1969snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM surround51 definition (id: surround51, value: cards.pcm.surround51)
Playback open error: -22,Invalid argument



I imagine that if I can at least get "speaker-test -c6" to produce the correct result everything should work in 5.1.

help help help

[neubus]

ok, simple solution,

tryed using "speaker-test -Dplug:surround51 -c6" not as root, and it all worked fine