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[lagagnon]

I am running Puppy 1.04 with a SoundBlaster Audigy II sound card. No sound and no module loaded. Output from Query_PCI is:

===== parse_pci_devices =====
10de: 312 (3,0) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] DISPLAY (null)
1102:4001 (12,0) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] SERIAL (null)
1102:7003 (9,128) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] INPUT (null)
1102: 4 (4,1) 11 [ Creative Labs - ] AUDIO emu10k1
14f1:1059 (7,128) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] COMM PORT (null)
10de: 1e8 (6,4) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] BRIDGE (null)
10de: 65 (1,1) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] EIDE (null)
10de: 6c (6,4) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] BRIDGE (null)
10de: 66 (2,0) 11 [ nVidia - nForce2 MCP Networking Adapter ] ETHERNET forcedeth
10de: 68 (12,3) 11 [ nVidia Corp - nForce2 USB 2.0 Enhanced Controller ] USB ehci-hcd
10de: 67 (12,3) 11 [ nVidia Corp - nForce2 USB 1.0 OHCI Controller ] USB usb-ohci
10de: 67 (12,3) 11 [ nVidia Corp - nForce2 USB 1.0 OHCI Controller ] USB usb-ohci
10de: 64 (12,5) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] SERIAL (null)
10de: 60 (6,1) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] BRIDGE (null)
10de: 1ef (5,0) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] MEMORY (null)
10de: 1ec (5,0) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] MEMORY (null)
10de: 1ed (5,0) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] MEMORY (null)
10de: 1ee (5,0) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] MEMORY (null)
10de: 1eb (5,0) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] MEMORY (null)
10de: 1e0 (6,0) 0 [ (null) - (null) ] BRIDGE (null)


The fourth item down the above list shows the kernel sees the card. However, output from lsmod below shows the emu10k1 module is not loaded:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
soundcore 3588 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 15108 0
parport 23880 0 [parport_pc]
sr_mod 14488 0 (unused)
ide-cd 29504 0
cdrom 27744 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
sd_mod 11404 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 19336 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ehci-hcd 17516 0 (autoclean) (unused)
usbcore 59596 1 (autoclean) [usb-ohci ehci-hcd]
forcedeth 9868 1 (autoclean)
scsi_mod 93972 2 [sr_mod sd_mod]

When I try to load the module with modprobe emu10k1 I get:

Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.29/modules.dep
/lib/modules/2.4.29/sound/oss/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.29/sound/oss/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.29/sound/oss/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.29/sound/oss/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: insmod emu10k1 failed

This card and module work fine under VectorLinux and Ubuntu. Any ideas greatly appreciated.

[tempestuous]

SBLive! and SB Audigy contain similar chipsets but it appears that the original OSS SBLive! driver was written prior to the Audigy's release.
There is a now a newer version which supports Audigy, but I think this has never made its way into the standard kernel.
You can compile this newer version yourself, from http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1
I suggest you make sure the new version overwrites the existing version, otherwise you will end up with two modules with identical filenames - emu10k1.o

The ALSA snd-emu10k1 driver supports both sound cards, but of course, Puppy doesn't have ALSA yet.

[tempestuous]

Here's the new module. Overwrite the existing one in /lib/modules/2.4.29/sound/oss/emu10k1/

[tempestuous]

You also need this. Overwrite the existing one in /lib/modules/2.4.29/sound/oss/

Then run"depmod"