semi-pro PCI snd crd for linux

[Chris Aitken]

Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Chris Aitken wrote:
>> 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
>
> Try http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/17/dept/3/idg/System_Tools, 
> specifically (choose depending on your architecture):
>
> alsa-firmware-1.0.13-1.fc7.ccrma.i386.rpm
> alsa-firmware-1.0.13-1.fc7.ccrma.x86_64.rpm
Yeah, I guess I'll need that:

[chris at p733 ~]$ rpm -q alsa-firmware
package alsa-firmware is not installed

[chris at p733 ~]$ <snip>
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