Some problems with installation sound card to linux Enigma.

[Fire]

How i can install my sound card on Linux please help!   :confused:

[slave]

What's that?  The distressed cry of a frustrated Linux user?  I feel sorry for you, as I've gone through flaming hoops to set up certain hardware on Linux, but unfortunately each case is different.  I suggest you either look up the appropriate "HOW-TO" files on Google, or switch to Windows XP.

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[Heru]

What kind of sound card is it?  Some of them just don't work at all due to proprietary drivers and specs or due to missing hardware on the card(similar to winmodems).  Also what distribution are you using?

[TheQuirk]

Isn't Enigma a game? http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/enigma.html...

[choasforages]

hmmm, depending on the sound card and what version of linux, i for some reason think that enigma is a version of readhat so this should work
su to root

/sbin/sndconfig

that _should_ autodetect your sound card if not it should ask about the setting of the sound card like the irq and ioport, atleast last time i used it

[Fire]

quote:Originally posted by Heru:
What kind of sound card is it?  Some of them just don't work at all due to proprietary drivers and specs or due to missing hardware on the card(similar to winmodems).  Also what distribution are you using?

Ok! my soundcard is Creative 32 byt i think i have anothere problem. In my motherboard i have internal sound card. motherboard is ASUS a7-ve may problem there???And what i can say about my distribution.... Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Enigma)

[Fire]

Ok! my soundcard is Creative 32 byt i think i have anothere problem. In my motherboard i have internal sound card. motherboard is ASUS a7-ve may problem there???And what i can say about my distribution.... Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Enigma)

[choasforages]

you did try the command that i said right, you have to run it as root, you know how to use the
su
command right?

[voidmain]

Ahhh, RedHat 7.2. Nobody refers to RedHat by it's codename (Enigma for 7.2). I think that threw a bunch of us off. Yes, you should turn off your onboard sound. Most motherboards have jumpers or switches for this. Then open up a terminal (shell prompt, or Konsole) and type "su" which will prompt you for the root password. You should get a "#" prompt if successful.  Then type /sbin/sndconfig as chaosforages mentioned above or /usr/sbin/setup will get you to the same sound config program.

Really you shouldn't have to do any of this as after installing the card kudzu should pick up on it and set it up for you. A common mistake is thinking your sound card is not working when in fact the volume is just turned down all the way in your mixer. Run "kmix" which you should find on your multimedia menu and make sure the volume is turned up.

[slave]

Table of Contents of the "Linux Sound HOW-TO":

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Acknowledgments
1.2. New versions of this document
1.3. Feedback
1.4. Distribution Policy
2. Sound Card Technology
3. Supported Hardware
3.1. Platform Notes
3.2. Sound Card Types
3.3. Sound Cards
3.4. Alternate Sound Drivers
4. Installation
4.1. Installing the Sound Card
4.2. Configuring ISA Plug and Play
4.3. Configuring the Kernel
4.4. Creating the Device Files
4.5. Booting Linux and Testing the Installation
4.6. Troubleshooting
5. Applications Supporting Sound
6. Answers To Frequently Asked Questions
6.1. What are the various sound device files?
6.2. How can I play a sound sample?
6.3. How can I record a sample?
6.4. Can I have more than one sound card?
6.5. Error: No such file or directory for sound devices
6.6. Error: No such device for sound devices
6.7. Error: No space left on device for sound devices
6.8. Error: Device busy for sound devices
6.9. I still get device busy errors!
6.10. Partial playback of digitized sound file
6.11. There are pauses when playing MOD files
6.12. Compile errors when compiling sound applications
6.13. SEGV when running sound binaries that worked previously
6.14. What known bugs or limitations are there in the sound driver?
6.15. Where are the sound driver ioctls() etc. documented?
6.16. What CPU resources are needed to play or record without pauses?
6.17. Problems with a PAS16 and an Adaptec 1542 SCSI host adaptor
6.18. Is it possible to read and write samples simultaneously?
6.19. My SB16 is set to IRQ 2, but configure does not allow this value.
6.20. If I run Linux, then boot DOS, I get errors and/or sound applications do not work properly.
6.21. Problems running DOOM under Linux
6.22. How can I reduce noise picked up by my sound card?
6.23. I can play sounds, but not record.
6.24. My "compatible" sound card only works if I first initialize under MS-DOS.
6.25. My 16-bit SoundBlaster "compatible" sound card only works in 8-bit mode under Linux.
6.26. Where can I find sound applications for Linux?
6.27. Can the sound drivers be compiled as a loadable module?
6.28. Can I use a sound card to replace the system console beep?
6.29. What is VoxWare?
6.30. Sox/Play/Vplay reports "invalid block size 1024"
6.31. The mixer settings are reset whenever I load the sound driver module
6.32. Only user root can record sound
6.33. Is the sound hardware on the IBM ThinkPad supported?
6.34. Applications fail because my sound card has no mixer
6.35. Problems with a SB16 CT4170
6.36. How to connect a MIDI keyboard to a soundcard
6.37. Problems with IRQ 15 and Ensoniq PCI 128
6.38. Where can I get freely available MIDI patches to run SoftOSS?
7. References

No wonder Red Hat codenamed their Linux version "Enigma"

[pkd_lives]

You should be aware, that creative don't seem to be too forth coming on old hardware on linux. I have a creative soundcard (pci128) which gets recognized as an Ensoniq ES1371 (audio PCI-97) - which sounds generic.

Also are you running under KDE, because that can give lots of sound issues, unitil it's configured correctly. I'm working on this myself.