semi-pro PCI snd crd for linux

[Chris Aitken]

tleslie wrote:
> does this card have a toslink fiber optics output?
> go into  alsamixer  make sure the needed volume leves are above 0,
> sometime they start at 0 by default, and there is Master, PCM, etc
>
> i have had issues with sound cards, like:
> 1) had to run yast and reinstall it via yast every reboot so it worked
> 	(but since machine stays up 24/7 this wasnt a issue),
> 2) had to switch to another method other then ALAS to get working.
> 3) had to install new alsa,
>
> if the card is "detected" by linux, and in alsa's compat. charts it
> gives it reference of basic workability, it 99.999% likel to work.
>
> check your dmesg and /var/log/messages for issues around module load.
>   
cat /var/log/messages has stuff that looks lie dmesg, but here's the emu 
stuff from cat /var/log/messages:

Sep  2 16:06:59 p733 kernel: emu1010: Special config.
Sep  2 16:06:59 p733 kernel: emu1010: EMU_HANA_ID=0x7f
Sep  2 16:06:59 p733 kernel: firmware: emu/hana.fw not found. Err=-2
Sep  2 16:06:59 p733 kernel: emu1010: Loading Hana Firmware file 
emu/hana.fw failed
Sep  2 16:06:59 p733 kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:0a.0 
disabled
Sep  2 16:06:59 p733 kernel: EMU10K1_Audigy: probe of 0000:02:0a.0 
failed with error -2

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