I use ALSA both on a 2.4 and a 2.6 kernel. Until recently I was completely satisfied with it, while using my built-in SIS7012 audio controller (intel8x0 driver). Now that I have added a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy LS I find ALSA unable to recognize it, although the driver is supposed to support both Audigy and Audigy 2. With ALSA built-in (2.6 kernel) the Audigy just doesn't show up in the ALSA device list (the SIS7012 does); with ALSA compiled as module (2.4 kernel) an insmod error results, while trying to load snd-emu10k1. Again, the snd-intel8x0 module loads without problems. I was unable to contact the emu10k1 developer, R. Sousa, on this (maybe I shouldn't even have tried). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Ajax root # emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.0-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/ share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/ config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://Gentoomirror/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://Gentoomirror/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gtk2 jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv z directfb gdbm berkdb slang readline arts aalib svga X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr scannednow acpi alsa amd autofs dedicated dga doc dvd fax fbcon freetype fs gphoto2 icc imap java javascript jikes mmx nvidia offensive pcap ppds samba sasl snmp tiff type1 unicode usb X509 xine xinerama xvid"
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Damn! It's not gonna work, I fear now. I did some additional googling and found this mail by Jaroslav Kysela himself: http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg10774.html Any comments?
I had contact with Creative support: negative. However they suggested to drop a mail with Creative's developers. I'm awaiting their response.
closing... reopen if you get more info...
I have datasheets. People are welcome to try my latest open source alsa drivers for the Audigy LS/SB Live 24bit cards at: http://www.alsa-project.org/~james/alsa-driver/audigyls.0.0.18.tar.bz2 Once I get some feedback on 0.0.18, I will get it added to alsa cvs. Is should playback, but capture might be a problem.
Audigy LS seems to be supported in the latest kernel (2.6.11-gentoo-r4). I am currently investigating whether it works...
It's called ca0106 instead of audigyls as it was called for a while in ALSA. The chip is recognized but the sound is "buggy". I need an ALSA expert probably to get it working as it should...
Your best bet is to work with the upstream developers on this as I don't have the card.
(In reply to comment #7) > It's called ca0106 instead of audigyls as it was called for a while in ALSA. > The chip is recognized but the sound is "buggy". I need an ALSA expert probably > to get it working as it should... > ca0106 is indeed the driver for Audigy LS with serial number SB0570, but the sound is completely distorted (white noise on the speakers). In the ALSA mixer I found out it's a due to the 'analog front' audio channel. Somehow, sometimes it jsut worked fine for me, but most of the times I get this terrible noise. Up until now, I will just wait until it's fixed by the developers, on the ALSA sound card matrix it's also mentioned.
