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Sound Blaster Audigy under Debian

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Sound Blaster Audigy under Debian

#1 Post by spz »

Hi,

I have a sound card Sound Blaster Audigy SE, and I would like to know if this sound card is compatible with Debian under Pulseaudio or ALSA please ?

Thank you :)

Edit : Oops, I'm sorry I was wrong of forum :s

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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy under Debian

#2 Post by saulgoode »

The Audigy SE card should be supported by the ALSA 'snd-ca0106' driver.
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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy under Debian

#3 Post by spz »

Ok :)

I forget to mention than I own 5.1 speakers, does the ALSA driver supports the 5.1 ? :)

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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy under Debian

#4 Post by kedaha »

Hi,
I recently bought the Creative Inspire A500, 5.1 speaker system for surround sound and intend to use them with my Genius 5.1 PCI sound card. I've had a Soundblaster SB Audigy PCI card lying around in a drawer for several years but never managed to get it to work with either Debian Etch or Lenny. I may make another attempt on my Squeeze system.
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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy under Debian

#5 Post by spz »

Hi,

Ok, keep us informed :mrgreen:

Thx ;)

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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy under Debian

#6 Post by kedaha »

spz wrote:Hi,

Ok, keep us informed :mrgreen:

Thx ;)
I made another attempt to get my soundblaster Audigy working but have decided to give it up as a bad job so it's going back to the drawer. I wonder if anyone has ever got theirs working with Debian. I'll use my Genius 5.1 with the A500 speakers.
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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy under Debian

#7 Post by slowcoach »

These settings will work with Etch, Lenny and Squeeze.
Instructions are for Ubuntu so just use su - instead of sudo for root privilege.

Settings for SB Audigy 7.1 card.

Select Tracks to be Visible:

Line in - Microphone - Analog Front - Capture feedback - Shared Mic/Line in
Playback: Analog Front - Capture Feedback
Recording: Line in - Microphone
Options: Shared Mic/Line in

Configuring default soundcards / stopping soundcards from switching
Note: This section assumes that you have installed each soundcard properly.

* In a shell, type cat /proc/asound/modules

* This will give the the name and index of each soundcard you have currently. Make a note of the names, and decide which one you want to be the default card.

* Now type sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
NOTE: The config file was previously named simply alsa-base IIRC so if you don't find alsa-base.conf in your Debian version try editing alsa-base instead.

* At the very end of the file, add the following (assuming you have 3 cards with module names A, B and C and you want to have them in the order CAB)

options snd-C index=0
options snd-A index=1
options snd-B index=2

The end of my alsa-base.conf looks like this, snd_hda_intel is the onboard sound chip (not required by me), snd_ca0106 is the Audigy card and snd_usb_audio is my Logitech USB Microphone. index=0 gives the Audigy priority and index=2 makes the Logitech Mic available at the same time. Setting the Mic index to 1 produced an error at bootup but it still worked perfectly, setting the index to 2 simply removed the bootup error.

options snd_hda_intel index=-2
options snd_ca0106 index=0
options snd_usb_audio index=2

Then all you have to do is set the volumes and reboot.
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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy under Debian

#8 Post by kedaha »

Thanks slowcoach; I'll certainly try the configuration myself later and post again since I have the same SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY Model: SB0570 as detailed for example, here.
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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy under Debian

#9 Post by kedaha »

spz wrote:Hi,

Ok, keep us informed :mrgreen:

Thx ;)
OK. Five months later. Good news! Today I was bored so I opened the computer and inserted my SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY Model: SB0570 and what a surprise! The thing worked immediately (in Squeeze) when I booted. No configuration was necessary for the CA0106 driver to work with ALSA except I disabled the onboard BIOS sound (Azalia codec) but regarding this question, please see this recent post about enabling multiple sound devices.
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