Sound issues with old SB16 and via onboard

[Onetrack]

Hi, I booted up the cd with the alsa trick and the onboard sound on my Gigabyte GM7VK motherboard and I get sound, albeit a little quiet and staticy, I had an old SB16 laying around and booted the machine up with it, the cd boot detected the card and it worked great. However when I put the cd to hd with KNXinstall the sb16 isn't used and I can't find any way to select it. All i would like to do is use this machine to listen to some shoutcast streams but xmms comes up with : Couldn't open audio: please check that 1: You have correct output plugin selected. (I think I do) 2: no other program is blocking the soundcard (none is afaik straight boot) and 3: your soundcard is configured properly (shouldn't it be the same driver as when it booted from cd>)>?)

Any ideas?

Other than that I have sucessfully got knoppix HD install to network boot over to 3 other machines and its brilliant, thanks for a great product.

output of LSPCI follows:



00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266] Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 05)
00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 05)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 23)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 23)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40)
00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. [ProSavageDDR K4M266]

[Stephen]

Open a console window and su to become root and then sndconfig to run the sound configuration utility.

[Onetrack]

Tada..

Thanks, that one should go in the Faq

(also get people to make sure their sound cables are plugged in all the way too...)

cheers,
One

[Stephen]

(also get people to make sure their sound cables are plugged in all the way too...)

cheers,
One

It does help to hear it.