[TriLUG] SB Live! audio card recognition

[John Wheeler]

Daniel T. Chen wrote:
>> 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
>>     
>
> That's not strange.
>
>   
Heh. Well then I should say: Strange to me.

> What's the output from ``cat /proc/asound/cards && amixer''?
>   
Output from cat /proc/asound/cards && amixer :

--- no sound cards ---
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device.

So the drivers aren't seeing it... right?


Matt Frye wrote:
> IIRC, one of my old RH7.3 boxes had an SBLive!  At some point I
> figured out that the regular sb module would make the card work.  I
> placed a "modprobe sb" in my /etc/rc.local.  Of course, that was a
> different dist with a different kernel, but it might be a clue.
I am going to try the OSS sb driver tonight, I think, and remove the 
ALSA drivers
 so they don't try to grab it.

Anyone have a tip on the lspci -vv output of these lines:

Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
Region 0: I/O ports at 1000 [disabled] [size=32]

What does that disabled flag mean exactly?


Thanks a lot for the help guys!
-John