[TriLUG] SB Live! audio card recognition

jwheeler at etherealfringe.com jwheeler at etherealfringe.com
Fri Sep 29 13:55:08 EDT 2006


> I'm pretty certain the "SBLive Value" isn't really an SBLive at all.
> It's some bastardized thing that doesn't use emu10k1. I don't remember
> which one, though.

So you're saying that the card I have may not actually be the bona fide SB
Live! chipset?

When is says "Subsystem: SBLive Value" does Subsystem refer to the chipset
or some driver designation?




> On 9/29/06, jwheeler at etherealfringe.com <jwheeler at etherealfringe.com>
> wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I have an older box running xUbuntu Dapper with an SB Live! audio card
>> installed. For some reason I am getting this strange result from lspci:
>>
>> 0000:00:14.0 VGA compatible unclassified device: Creative Labs SB Live!
>> EMU10k1 (rev 08)
>>         Subsystem: Creative Labs CT4832 SBLive! Value
>>         Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
>> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
>> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
>>         Region 0: I/O ports at 1000 [disabled] [size=32]
>>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
>> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>>
>> 0000:00:14.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game
>> Port (rev 08)
>>         Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick
>>         Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
>> ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
>> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>>         Latency: 64
>>         Region 0: I/O ports at fff0 [size=8]
>>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
>> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>>
>>
>>
>> It's calling it a VGA unclassified device and saying that the I/O is
>> disabled for some reason. I can't figure out why. I have the ALSA
>> emu10k1
>> drivers installed (snd-emu10k1). They seem to be set up correctly, maybe
>> I'm missing something. But as far as I can tell the card is not being
>> recognized as an audio interface by the system at all.
>>
>> This card was supposed to be well supported with the ALSA drivers.
>>
>> Any ideas as to how I could help it become recognized as a Multimedia
>> device? I don't completely understand how all of this works. Any
>> insights
>> at all would be great.
>>
>> lsmod | grep snd
>>
>> snd_emu10k1_synth       7296  0
>> snd_emu10k1           117284  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
>> snd_emux_synth         37376  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
>> snd_seq_virmidi         7680  1 snd_emux_synth
>> snd_seq_midi_emul       7168  1 snd_emux_synth
>> snd_seq_dummy           3844  0
>> snd_seq_oss            33536  0
>> snd_seq_midi            9376  0
>> snd_seq_midi_event      7552  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
>> snd_seq                51984  9
>> snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
>> snd_rawmidi            25504  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi
>> snd_ac97_codec         93088  1 snd_emu10k1
>> snd_ac97_bus            2304  1 snd_ac97_codec
>> snd_pcm_oss            53664  0
>> snd_mixer_oss          18688  1 snd_pcm_oss
>> snd_pcm                89864  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
>> snd_seq_device          8716  8
>> snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
>> snd_timer              25220  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
>> snd_page_alloc         10632  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
>> snd_util_mem            4608  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth
>> snd_hwdep               9376  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth
>> snd                    55268  13
>> snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
>> soundcore              10208  3 sb_lib,sound,snd
>>
>> -John
>>
>>
>>
>>
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