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Thread: HOWTO: Use a Sound Blaster Live to the fullest.

  1. #11
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    Re: HOWTO: Use a Sound Blaster Live to the fullest.

    Hello,

    I'm have a Sound Blaster Audigy, and I'm not getting ANY sound. I've already gone in, and tried to make the EMU10K1 driver work by putting in

    sudo modprobe snd_emu10k1
    .
    It didn't work, so I looking into this thread.

    When I typed alsamixer, and the sound thing came up I noticed that it says:

    Card: Intel ICH5
    Chip: Analog Devices AD1985
    View: [Playback] Capture all
    Item: Master
    Does this mean that it's looking at my MB's default card, and not my Sound Blaster Audigy?

    Can someone please help me?! I'm about to pull out my hair!

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    Re: HOWTO: Use a Sound Blaster Live to the fullest.

    First off, a disclaimer: I haven't tried this on Ubuntu. The SB Live issues drove me to try Debian Testing (Etch) in hopes that upstream some of these problems wouldn't exist. They do in Debian as well. However, I've finally had some success.

    Primary issue for me was not being able to mute the microphone. This is how I've dealt with it, though the solution admittedly may be imperfect.

    1. Gnome Volume Control: Go to File->Change Device->TriTech TR28602 (OSS Mixer).
    2. Go to the capture tab. Make sure you can see the option for Microphone. If not, enable it through Edit->Preferences.
    3. The Microphone mute button DOES NOT WORK in the OSS Mixer here. (Does anyone know a proper workaround for this?) So, to make the microphone stop playing back on your speakers, you have to mute the microphone's output or drop its volume to 0.

    The rest of the steps can be done in Gnome's Volume Control or using alsamixer, but alsamixer is probably easier. Just do "sudo alsamixer" to start, "sudo alsactl store" to save changes. "?" brings up help in alsamixer.

    4. Set AC97 output to 0 and AC97 capture to 100. Might not be necessary, but it doesn't seem to hurt anything. Just try it.
    5. Enable the microphone as the capture device. The original poster said line in, but maybe he wasn't trying to record off a mic. The regular mic in -should- work.
    6. If the sound output is funny - under Ubuntu it was, under Debian it strangely was not, but it could have just been a difference in my procedure - try the Tone trick mentioned in the first post. Sound was okay before setting tone, and is great after setting tone and bass/treble.

    Now, audacity works fine, I don't get any bloody microphone feedback when using my headset, and probably I can use Skype without annoying the heck out of myself now. In fact, I think I'll go do that.

    Sources with information which helped me:
    - First few posts of this thread
    - http://alsa.opensrc.org/Emu10k1#Gene...gs_for_emu10k1)

    - Paul Goins

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    Re: HOWTO: Use a Sound Blaster Live to the fullest.

    I´ve got a Soundblaster Live! and everything is working fine except the Mic, I´ve tried everything on this thread, but to no avail.....still i can use Teamspeak or Sound Recorder.I can hear myself on the headphones, just nothing seems to actually record.

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    Re: HOWTO: Use a Sound Blaster Live to the fullest in the Feisty Fawn.

    Thank you this fixed my low volume in Ubuntu 7.04 - the Feisty Fawn - for my soundblaster card

    In a terminal type alsamixer to get to the alsa mixer program.
    First hit f5. Then turn up the volume on EVERYTHING. You use the cursors for doing this, press up, and then press right and turn everything up. Use M to unmute tone etc (see first post)

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    Re: HOWTO: Use a Sound Blaster Live to the fullest.

    Hi, I have a Live 1024 card which is no longer working properly.

    The main problem is that alsamixer doesn't do anything! I can set anything and nothing is changed.

    I think that the only output I am getting is from oss and not ALSA - I'm using Feisty Kubuntu.

    Also, I am only getting output on my rear speakers!

    Any ideas?

    Cheers, J.

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    Re: HOWTO: Use a Sound Blaster Live to the fullest.

    Yes, but how can you set it all so that all 5 speakers or at least 4 are on the same page, so when you turn the volume up you're turning em all up???

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    Re: HOWTO: Use a Sound Blaster Live to the fullest.

    I got the Sound Blaster Live! 24 bit card to work under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04).

    To sum up the solution:
    1. disable default onboard card in BIOS
    2. create /home/your_username/.asoundrc

    Save .asoundrc with:

    pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "surround51"
    slave.channels 6
    route_policy duplicate
    }


    Here's how I got there (describing this here so you won't have to go through the same trouble):

    My computer has two sound chipsets:

    onno@onno-desktop:~$ asoundconf list
    Names of available sound cards:
    ICH6
    CA0106

    CA0106 is the Sound Blaster Live! 24 bit card, the other is the onboard sound card.

    If I use the command:

    asoundconf set-default-card CA0106

    - then after the FIRST reboot, the Sound Blaster is now the default card. You can check this in the alsamixergui. Unfortunately, it seems as though, after a SECOND reboot, the default switches back to the onboard card.

    No wait, upon testing this, I notice that the command doesn't seem to have any effect at all, not even after the first reboot. I have now disabled the onboard card in the BIOS.

    Now, only the front boxes are playing any music in Amarok, while in Rhythmbox only the rear boxes are playing!

    Also, issuing the command "asoundconf set-default-card CA0106", as I did earlier, has the effect that this file is created:

    /home/onno/.asoundrc.asoundconf

    This file ruins everything!

    1. delete the file
    2. create a file /home/onno/.asoundrc
    3. put this in it and save it:

    pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "surround51"
    slave.channels 6
    route_policy duplicate
    }


    To sum up the solution:
    1. disable default onboard card in BIOS
    2. create /home/onno/.asoundrc

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    Re: HOWTO: Use a Sound Blaster Live to the fullest.

    Soundblaster Live user here. Had to turn on wave surround to get sound.

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    Re: HOWTO: Use a Sound Blaster Live to the fullest.

    Thanks!

    Lowering PCM definitely made a difference. I also noticed my speakers are controlled by wave, wave lfe, wave center and wave surround.

    So with a bit of tinkering its all good apart from when I change the volume with my keyboard it changes all the sliders together. I like to have the rear louder (as the speakers are further away) but when i change the overall volume it puts all channels on the same level. Any ideas?

    Thanks =]

    Edit: Don't worry, I can change volume levels on the speaker system.
    Last edited by skattyadz; August 27th, 2007 at 08:04 PM.

  10. #20
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    Re: HOWTO: Use a Sound Blaster Live to the fullest.

    Unfortunately none of the advices helped me in Feisty Sound feedback is there, recording is not

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