Sound Problems

Álvaro Morais · Post by **Álvaro Morais** » Fri May 01, 2009 4:17 pm

I have a Creative Audigy SE configured whit the module CA106

The problem is to make the mixer work.

It seems that Wine looks for PCM Playback Volume that is common to many
cards, but not mine.

My card channels for Playback are IEC958, IEC958 C, IEC958 F, IEC958 R,
Analog C, Analog F, Analog R and Analog S.

What am I missing?

Thanks.

Susan Cragin · Post by **Susan Cragin** » Fri May 01, 2009 4:46 pm

I have a Creative Audigy SE configured whit the module CA106

The problem is to make the mixer work.

It seems that Wine looks for PCM Playback Volume that is common to many
cards, but not mine.

My card channels for Playback are IEC958, IEC958 C, IEC958 F, IEC958 R,
Analog C, Analog F, Analog R and Analog S.

What am I missing?

Thanks.

I'm not an expert, but here's a bit of advice.
First, does your card work properly in Linux? Say, with Audigy? If not...
The current alsa configuration is light on support for Creative SoundBlaster cards, and you might want to try upgrading to the current stable version at the following site:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... iwai/alsa/
You want the alsa-drivers, and you may want alsa-libs, too.
I use the Creative SoundBlaster X-fi card. Sound was great until a couple of weeks ago, then I got another problem that hopefully you won't have.
Susan

Álvaro Morais · Post by **Álvaro Morais** » Fri May 01, 2009 5:55 pm

Sex, 2009-05-01 Ã s 17:46 -0400, Susan Cragin escreveu:

I have a Creative Audigy SE configured whit the module CA106

The problem is to make the mixer work.

It seems that Wine looks for PCM Playback Volume that is common to

many

cards, but not mine.

My card channels for Playback are IEC958, IEC958 C, IEC958 F, IEC958

R,

Analog C, Analog F, Analog R and Analog S.

What am I missing?

Thanks.
I'm not an expert, but here's a bit of advice.
First, does your card work properly in Linux? Say, with Audigy? If

not...

The current alsa configuration is light on support for Creative

SoundBlaster cards, and you might want to try upgrading to the current
stable version at the following site:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... iwai/alsa/
You want the alsa-drivers, and you may want alsa-libs, too.
I use the Creative SoundBlaster X-fi card. Sound was great until a

couple of weeks ago, then I got another problem that hopefully you won't
have.

Susan

Thanks Susan but I think the sound-card is correctly configured on
Linux.
As for the alsa-lib I use the stable branch of Gentoo(amd64) that
currently uses 1.0.18.

I have 2 sound cards, one is hda-intel integrated with the motherboard
an the other is the Audigy.

I currently have the hda-intel disabled(module blacklisted, since I
can't disable it on the BIOS), and I only use the Audigy SE. I've
already made an experiment with hda-intel that has the PCM Playback
Volume channel, and I don't have the mixer problem with suggests it's
not an alsa problem, but a wine problem.

Here's the problem:

err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find 'PCM Playback Volume'
element
err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find 'PCM Playback Volume'
element
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on CA0106, disabling
mixer

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Mon May 04, 2009 5:21 pm

Run winecfg, open the Audio tab, and check what input/output settings are available in the ALSA tree node. You might be able to disable/enable some or at least find out what's missing.

You can always find out your actual mixer channel names by running alsamixer, by the way.