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sound cards: audigy or santa cruz

Post by David Magd » Sat, 12 Apr 2003 23:05:14



Hello,

Nothing on the hardware support list, so I'd thought I'd ask just in
case.

I've been thinking of picking up either a SB Audigy or Turtle Beach
Santa Cruz. Does anyone know which chipsets either of these cards
use, or whether there have been plans to support them?

Thanks for any info.

--
David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca>, http://www.magda.ca/
Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under
the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well
under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_, Chapter VI

 
 
 
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sound cards: audigy or santa cruz

Post by Adam K Kirchhof » Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:30:10



> Hello,

> Nothing on the hardware support list, so I'd thought I'd ask just in
> case.

> I've been thinking of picking up either a SB Audigy or Turtle Beach
> Santa Cruz. Does anyone know which chipsets either of these cards
> use, or whether there have been plans to support them?

> Thanks for any info.

There are a couple patches floating around for the Audigy that I've used.
One of them works well for me (if you ask, I can send you the link for it but I
don't remember off hand).  They're apparently being merged together before
being added to the distribution.

I've used it almost exclusively for mp3 playback, and *, and it
works.  I'm having a hard time getting recording to work, but I think
that's user error :-)

Adam

 
 
 
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sound cards: audigy or santa cruz

Post by David Magd » Sun, 13 Apr 2003 03:15:14



Quote:> There are a couple patches floating around for the Audigy that I've
> used.  One of them works well for me (if you ask, I can send you
> the link for it but I don't remember off hand).  They're apparently
> being merged together before being added to the distribution.

[...]

Sure, thanks. Either post a URI or send to me directly. My email
address is valid.

Don't have an Audigy yet, but I may pick one up from a store that has
a good return policy. :>

--
David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca>, http://www.magda.ca/
Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under
the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well
under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_, Chapter VI

 
 
 
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sound cards: audigy or santa cruz

Post by Adam K Kirchhof » Sun, 13 Apr 2003 21:08:37




>> There are a couple patches floating around for the Audigy that I've
>> used.  One of them works well for me (if you ask, I can send you
>> the link for it but I don't remember off hand).  They're apparently
>> being merged together before being added to the distribution.
> [...]

> Sure, thanks. Either post a URI or send to me directly. My email
> address is valid.

> Don't have an Audigy yet, but I may pick one up from a store that has
> a good return policy. :>

http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/
 
 
 
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sound cards: audigy or santa cruz

Post by David Magd » Sun, 13 Apr 2003 22:49:53



Quote:> > Sure, thanks. Either post a URI or send to me directly. My email
> > address is valid.

> > Don't have an Audigy yet, but I may pick one up from a store that
> > has a good return policy. :>

> http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/

Thanks.

The web page says that the drivers are for 5-CURRENT, and that they
may not work under 4.x. What are you using them under?

--
David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca>, http://www.magda.ca/
Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under
the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well
under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_, Chapter VI

 
 
 
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sound cards: audigy or santa cruz

Post by Adam K Kirchhof » Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:14:29




>> > Sure, thanks. Either post a URI or send to me directly. My email
>> > address is valid.

>> > Don't have an Audigy yet, but I may pick one up from a store that
>> > has a good return policy. :>

>> http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/

> Thanks.

> The web page says that the drivers are for 5-CURRENT, and that they
> may not work under 4.x. What are you using them under?

5.0-RELEASE.  Sorry, I should have made that clear.  FYI, there is a patch
on that page in the "other's work" section by Alexander Kurilovich which
supposedly works with both 4.x and 5.x...  However, when I tried it, I
could never get it to output any noise :-)

Adam

 
 
 
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1. alsa, modprobe, lib/modules, and a turtle beach santa cruz sound card equals one confusing problem.

- I installed red hat 7.3 with kernel version 2.4.18.  
- I have a turtle beach santa cruz sound card.  
- I could get sound out of the analog/headphone jack by running
sndconfig, the  problem is, I need digital output to use my speakers.
- I ran ./configure, make, make install, snddevices with the alsa
driver 0.9 rc3.
- All of my existing modules were in /lib/modules/2.4.18-3.  More
specifically, the defalt sound modules are in
/lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/sound.  However, alsa created the
directory /lib/modules/2.4.18 and put its modules in
/lib/modules/2.4.18/misc
- When I do a modprobe or modinfo, it doesn't seem to find any modules
located in the /lib/modules/2.4.18.  I tried copying all of the alsa
modules from their new directory into the default directory, and when
I run a modprobe I get a lot of unresolved symbol errors, probably 30
or so.
- Also, I ran alsaconf and it created a new modules.conf for me, but
in the line "alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cs461x" it refers to a module
snd-card-cs461x which does not exist.  The closest thing to it is
snd-cx46xx.  I tried renaming it but I get the same unresolved symbol
errors.

so:
1) Why does alsa create its modules in /lib/modules/2.4.18 instead of
/lib/modules/2.4.18-3?  Did I do the right thing in copying them to
the default location?
2) What's the deal with snd-card-461x vs. snd-46xx
3) What is the cause of the "unresolved symbol" errors?
4) Is there anything else that I am missing?

I would really appreciate any help anyone can give me.

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