[Fedora-music-list] Re: Mixer Wowes

[William M. Quarles]

David Timms wrote:
> William M. Quarles wrote:
>> I have Fedora 10 and a machine with a (please, no laughing or 
>> snickering) Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE 64 Value sound card and a 
>> Sigma Designs RealMagic Hollywood Plus DVD decoder card. While the 
>> computer loads the ALSA drivers needed for both cards,
> As evidenced by ?

Uh, as evidenced by lsmod? I'm not a newbie if that's what you're implying.

[root at quarlewm ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
udf                    69388  0
fuse                   49436  2
bridge                 43796  0
stp                     6148  1 bridge
bnep                   14848  2
sco                    12932  2
l2cap                  21504  3 bnep
bluetooth              48608  5 bnep,sco,l2cap
sunrpc                156052  3
ip6t_REJECT             7296  2
nf_conntrack_ipv6      15864  2
ip6table_filter         6400  1
ip6_tables             14736  1 ip6table_filter
ipv6                  230516  36 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
dm_multipath           17164  0
uinput                 10624  0
ppdev                  10500  0
snd_sbawe              31180  0
snd_opl3_lib           12800  1 snd_sbawe
adv717x                11684  1
snd_hwdep              10500  1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_sb16_dsp           11648  1 snd_sbawe
snd_sb_common          18432  2 snd_sbawe,snd_sb16_dsp
snd_mpu401_uart        10368  1 snd_sbawe
em8300                 62380  1
snd_seq_dummy           6660  0
snd_rawmidi            22528  1 snd_mpu401_uart
firewire_ohci          22532  0
snd_seq_oss            30364  0
firewire_core          35616  1 firewire_ohci
snd_seq_midi_event      9600  1 snd_seq_oss
crc_itu_t               5760  2 udf,firewire_core
snd_seq                48576  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         10124  6 
snd_sbawe,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_dummy,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
radeon                237912  2
snd_pcm_oss            42496  0
snd_mixer_oss          16896  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                65924  4 snd_sbawe,snd_sb16_dsp,em8300,snd_pcm_oss
ns558                   8320  0
drm                   158260  3 radeon
floppy                 51988  0
ata_generic             8452  0
snd_timer              22024  3 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq,snd_pcm
gameport               13452  2 ns558
pata_acpi               7680  0
snd_page_alloc         11016  1 snd_pcm
i2c_algo_bit            8836  2 em8300,radeon
3c59x                  40232  0
pcspkr                  6272  0
parport_pc             25620  0
mii                     8192  1 3c59x
snd                    50616  18 
snd_sbawe,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_sb16_dsp,snd_sb_common,snd_mpu401_uart,em8300,snd_seq_dummy,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               9416  2 em8300,snd
i2c_viapro             10772  0
i2c_core               21396  6 
adv717x,em8300,radeon,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_viapro
pata_via               12036  0
parport                31956  2 ppdev,parport_pc
pata_pdc2027x          11012  3

> I'm not sure which mod the awe needs, but check lsmod |grep snd
> Maybe fpaste.org your alsa-info results for others to check

The AWE 64 cards use snd-sbawe module, which can be easily checked on 
http://www.alsa-project.org/'s sound card matrix.

I have no idea what you mean by fpaste.org, but alsa-info does seem like 
a good idea in this case; however it also unfortunately seems a little 
useless since it reveals a great deal of output, but I can't copy and 
paste any of it into this post, and the final message upon exiting the 
program says:

	Your ALSA information is located at
	Please inform the person helping you.

So, uh, LOCATED AT big blank? Gee, thanks, stupid diagnostic program.

>> the sound controls in GNOME only display the Hollywood+ controls, and 
>> nothing is available for the AWE 64.
> In gnome-volume-control I see Device entries for eg:
> CA0106 alsa
> Nvidia nforce2 alsa
> mixer oss
> playback CA PA
> playback NF PA
> capture   CA PA
> capture   NF PA
> capture-monitor   CA PA
> capture-monitor   NF PA
> and I need to change the device to control the appropriate card.
> 
> Did you try alsamxixer, and alsaunmute ?
> 
> DaveT.
> 

I am aware that you need to change the device to the appropriate card in 
the GNOME mixer. The Hollywood+ card is the only option available.

[root at quarlewm ~]# alsamixer
ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: 
Connection refused


alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Connection refused
[root at quarlewm ~]# alsaunmute
Unknown hardware: "SB AWE" "CTL1745" "CTL1745" "" ""
Hardware is initialized using a guess method
/lib/alsa/init/default:17: unable to convert dB value '-20dB' to 
internal integer range
/lib/alsa/init/default:23: unable to convert dB value '-20dB' to 
internal integer range
/lib/alsa/init/default:62: unable to convert dB value '-20dB' to 
internal integer range
/lib/alsa/init/default:84: unable to convert dB value '-20dB' to 
internal integer range
/lib/alsa/init/default:105: unable to convert dB value '-20dB' to 
internal integer range
/lib/alsa/init/default:143: unable to convert dB value '12dB' to 
internal integer range

You're help is appreciated.

Thanks,
William