SuSE Linux: Versions since 7.0
Kernel: Versions since 2.2
The soundcard Creative Soundblaster 128 PCI with the identifying information
Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
couldn´t be installed with
yast2
or alsaconf
in spite of the fact that
the soundcard resp. the sound chip is recognized from
yast2
or alsaconf
Found Card: Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI(rev 02) Driver: snd-card-ens1371
but Yast2 crashes with the error message
The kernel module snd-card-ens1371 for sound support could not be loaded
and alsaconf with the message
Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 80%. The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system. Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably not detected correctly.
and the configuration fails.
On our ftp server you can find an update for the ALSA package which includes the support for this special sound chip.
Please copy either packages
to your machine and install the update with the commands below:
rpm -Uvh alsa.rpm
rpm -Uvh --force alsadrv.rpm
You can configure the sound now using yast2 or alsaconf. Further information to ALSA you can find in: Soundkonfiguration mit ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture).
To check if your soundcard is of this type, please use as user
root
in a terminal the following command
lspci -v
In the output the following lines should be mentioned:
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI(rev 02) Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI128