08-05-2003 01:31									#1
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I have just installed Linux for the first time ever. I have installed Mandrake 9.1. My problem is that i can not get any sound. I get only static in my speakers. My setup is this: ASUS A7VX333 motherboard with onboard sound, which I have disabled in my BIOS as I have a Creative SB Live! soundcard, which runs perfectly under Windows XP.

In Linux, I am using the default driver for my soundcard, but as I said. No sound. When Linux tries to play sound, I have a hissing noise in my speakers, otherwise static. My speakers are normal 5.1 channel speakers, but I have found nowhere in Mandrake 9.1 that lets my tell Linux that my speakers are 5.1. Can anybody help me?

Asmodean

	08-05-2003 01:52									#2
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The SBLive drivers included in the kernel the last time I compiled didn't work for me. I had to download another version of that driver and use that. If you are feeling adventurous then go to http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme/ and download and compile some of the other drivers and try them out.

	08-05-2003 02:21									#3
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I'm using the ALSA emu10k1 driver for Creative Labs SB Live! 5.1 Model SB0100 *. Works great, especially in the 2.5.69 kernel which has fixed a recent problem with MIDI synthesis I had. IIRC Asher has been in a pretty similar situation to yours, so he might also be able to help.. since I can't remember for my life how he fixed his system.

* name fetched from lspci

	08-05-2003 02:28									#4
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I had a problem with the SB Audigy, and I just went to Creative's site and installed their open-source drivers like they instructed. Then it worked, mostly.

ARTS still has problems with it.

	08-05-2003 02:54									#5
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the speakers shouldn't be that much of an issue. mandrake's based on the redhat core, which means that you have your basic arTs setup for your sound card.

ALSA might solve your woes, as might http://opensource.creative.com/ ...
since i use a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz which uses a Cirrus Logic chip, i don't know the particulars of how to remedy this. sorry ^^;

	08-05-2003 02:59									#6
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kill linux, get window you shouldQ@

	08-05-2003 03:01									#7
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linux: just say no?

friends don't let friends run linux?

linux is great man... take the best orgasm you've ever had, multiply it a thousand times, and you don't get anywhere near the feeling of satisfaction you get after compiling your own distribution...

how else can we make it sound like a drug?

	08-05-2003 03:03									#8
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linux no gerat, linux confuse poor bosho
should use windows me, that better it crash every day, but not confusing it isd!

	08-05-2003 03:13									#9
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Boshko, it was funny at first, it's quickly becoming tiresome. Take a nap or be forced to.

	08-05-2003 08:54									#10
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Linux sucks.

Stick with Windows.

	08-05-2003 09:51									#11
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hmmm, I wonder if I'm banned.

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ahh good, thank you oh merciful moderators for having mercy on a poor drunk squirrel.

	08-05-2003 10:07									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Ted Striker Linux sucks. Stick with Windows.

You're not a network admin, what would you know about these issues?

	08-05-2003 10:08									#14
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To be a network admin here, all you need is an associate's degree/diploma.

	09-05-2003 01:31									#15
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Okay...thanks guys. I'll look into it in the weekend. My work schedule is pretty heavy tomorrow. I'll be back and ask for more help, I'm sure

Asmodean

	09-05-2003 08:20									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger You're not a network admin, what would you know about these issues?

Linux is the bane of my working existence.

I'll take UNIX or Windows over it every single time.


I'm literally exhausted from trying to hunt down some damn kernel updates this week.

	09-05-2003 11:33									#17
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i dunno. i worked with setting up a mixed windows network, and believe me-- crossing xp with 2000 with 98se was far more trouble than it was worth.

i'd've taken linux over it any day.

	09-05-2003 12:30									#18
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hmm...Linux is one dilly of a pickle. Im tryin to figure out my Evil Entity Distro Box. Crazy error messages and all.