Awesome! I have been looking for a helpful community, but have not been able to find one until now. Thank you so much for all of the info.
Okay, I definitely checked the normal items such as cables/power/hearing aid :) and all of that is fine.
I checked the mixer settings as you described, and the volume is all the way up (just like I like it).
I am not sure if ALSA is on or not, and being the newbie I am, I am not sure how to do that.
I reviewed the text dumps that you outlined, and from what I can tell it looks to me like the proper audigy info is being started, but I could definitely be mistaken. I have attached the tar archive as you suggested.
For the installfest, do I just bring my box? Or my whole setup?
Again, thank you very much for the help.
Ron
--- ME <dugan@passwall.com> wrote:
> Ron Balch said:
> > This is my first time participating in a LUG. So
> I apologize if I am
> > doing this wrong. Anyways, I just installed
> Mandrake 9.1, and I cannot
> > get my Audigy Platinum sound card to produce any
> sound. It works fine
> > when I boot into Windows XP so I know it isn't the
> hardware. Odd thing is
> > that I can see it starting the Audigy services
> upon boot up like it knows
> > that it is there. Thank you for any assistance.
>
> Nope, you are doing "the right thing" as this list
> is also useful for
> discussing technical issues with Linux.
>
> Assuming nobody else has responded to you before me,
> please permit me to
> welcome you to NBLUG!
>
> Welcome to NBLUG!
>
> As to this issue you are experiencing... There are
> many ways to go about
> trying to solve this.
> (I'll include 3 suggestions for direction in solving
> this.)
>
> *** First, you are lucky! We have an installfest
> coming up. :-)
>
> (Original Announcement from Greg Dickerson, our new
> InstallFest
> Coordinator.)
> http://www.nblug.org/pipermail/announce/2003q1/000136.html
>
> (To sign up and for more information)
> http://www.nblug.org/installfest/
>
> If you sign up for the installfest, you can bring
> your computer down to
> our installfest on April 19 (at SSU) and someone can
> try to help you with
> this. Often this is ideal, as the results of
> applying one tool to test for
> problems tells you where to go next.
>
> *** Second, you can try google for this, as others
> may have had this
> problem too. Sometimes you will find posts where
> someone will say, "I am
> running (Linux Distro) and found installing (or
> configuring) package (name
> here) fixed the problem.
>
> (For example, after doing a simple google search
> under their linux section
> ( http://www.google.com/linux ) I did a search based
> on the probelms you
> reported and foun from this URL:
> http://ask.slashdot.org/articles/03/03/25/1621234.shtml?tid=106&tid=147
>
> This text (from Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March
> 25, @12:42PM)
> [chop]
> > I don't have major complaints about the
> installation procedure,
> > except maybe a single bug I encountered: the
> installation would pick
> > the audigy() driver for my first generation
> SBLive! instead of the
> > emu10k() driver, and it would not turn on ALSA on
> boot by default. I
> > installed Mandrake 9.1 twice and both times the
> same problem
> > happened, I had no sound at all, until I turned on
> ALSA and picked
> > the emu10k() driver manually (older versions of
> Mandrake didn't have
> > problem with this card).
> [chop]
> That sounds like what you describe.
>
> If that does not help, or you want to try something
> different...
>
> *** Third, you can try to work with us onlist if you
> wish. This is
> perfectly fine, and common for NBLUG. We have
> archives of messages where
> linux related topics are discussed, and technical
> support items are also
> discussed. (There are many examples in our archives:
> http://www.nblug.org/pipermail/talk/ )
>
> Working out problems onlist is good for archives,
> and helps other people
> "googling" for similar solutions.
>
> I will assume you have done all of the standard tech
> support things: (is
> each thing plugged in to the right spot, etc./)
>
> First, the most common problem is that of default
> mixer settings. If there
> is a driver (really, more likely a module) set for
> the sound card to work,
> it may have initialized the settings for output to
> be too low in volume to
> generate a signal. If this is the case, you can try
> to locate a mixer. In
> Debian, I use the console/tty based "aumix". You may
> have a package with
> aumix that you can use. Consider installing it and
> then run it:
> # aumix
> (then use the arrow keys to navigate what you want
> increase, paying
> special attention to the "PCM" and top line "Volume"
> as these are most
> commonly used for most audio output. When you are
> done with aumix, you can
> press "q" to quit and exit.)
>
> You may have another graphical/GUI based mixer that
> also have support for
> control of the master volume and the PCM volume as
> well, you can try that
> instead.
>
> Keep trying to set the volume higher to see if you
> can get sound. If you
> set the volume up higher and still have no sound
> output, then there are
> other things to try.
>
> Install a package for "lsof" and then as root:
> # lsof | grep dsp > /tmp/devopen.txt
> # lsof | grep audio >> /tmp/devopen.txt
> # lsof | grep sequencer >> /tmp/devopen.txt
> (lsof is to "list open files" check out the man
> pages. What we are doing
> here, is trying to see if there is a process that
> has opened your audio
> devices and is blocking use to other apps. Things
> like "esd" and other
> daemonized sound services are examples of processes
> that might be listed.)
>
> As root, run "dmesg" and send the output to a
> file:(sample:)
> # dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt
> (This should provide an output of many of the items
> listed in the boot
> messages during boot by your kernel. If your sound
> card was found, then I
> would expect to see something referring to it in
> this.)
>
> As root, run "lspci" and send the output to a
> file:(sample:)
> # lspci > /tmp/lspci.txt
> (This lists pci based devices know on your system.
> If your sound card is
> known to be ISA or is not integrated/pci then this
> may not be much help.)
>
> Then, to see what processes you have running just in
> case you have
> something "odd" running, could you also:
> # ps -auxw > /tmp/proc.txt
>
> Maybe even look at what modules are installed:
> # lsmod > /tmp/mod.txt
>
> Next, could you tar up all of these files (and
> compress) all in one:
> # tar -czvf /tmp/soundissue.tar.gz /tmp/devopen.txt
> \
> /tmp/dmesg.txt /tmp/lspci /tmp/proc.txt /tmp/mod.txt
>
> And then reply to this and attach
> /tmp/soundissue.tar.gz to youre message
> in your next reply.
>
> Not all of these files are likely to be necessary,
> but they should permit
> tracking down most common problems beyond the simple
> mixer issue. We
> probably only need the output from one of these, but
> knowing which one is
> difficult without access to the machine.
>
> HTH,
> -ME
>
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