Description of problem: The AC97 part of the driver seems to be having issues as seen in this section of the dmesg here: [ 31.951657] ALSA sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2091 AC'97 0 does not respond - RESET [ 31.951671] ALSA sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2100 AC'97 0 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer. [ 31.952452] ALSA sound/pci/emu10k1/irq.c:44 snd-emu10k1: Suspected sound card removal [ 31.952548] snd_emu10k1: probe of 0000:01:06.0 failed with error -5 This means that the soundcard fails initialization and thus I can't use it. Now according to the alsa support wiki ( http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Creative_Labs ) the Sound Blaster Live! Platinum is supported which according to the Creative product matrix ( http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowArticle.aspx?url=http://ask.creative.com:80/srvs/cgi-bin/webcgi.exe/,/?st=295,e=0000000002662240829,k=2226,sxi=18,varset=ws:,case=10846 ) the Platinum is in the same family (CT4760) as the X-Gamer, the Platinum is the CT4760P as opposed to CT4760X. Which should I would have thought meant that it's supported by the same driver. However it seems to fail, which may mean that the platinum is also broken however I don't have one to test. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 17 & 18 Beta, openSUSE 12.2, Ubuntu 10.04 & 12.10, Slax 4.2.0 How reproducible: Install a Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer into a PCI Slot on your computer, and boot up a Linux. Steps to Reproduce: 1. See Above 2. 3. Actual results: Sound Card Doesn't work Expected results: Sound card working Additional info: This effects all distributions I've tried with this card even going all the way back to Slax 4.2.0, I would be reporting this bug against upstream ALSA but I can't connect to their bug tracker. also here's the relevant output from lspci -vv 01:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) Subsystem: Creative Labs CT4760 SBLive! Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20 Region 0: I/O ports at efc0 [size=32] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 01:06.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 07) Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 32 Region 0: I/O ports at eff8 [size=8] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Kernel driver in use: Emu10k1_gameport
I sympathise very much with your problem but you really need to seek support from the upstream ALSA project. Additionally this is filed against alsa-firmware. alsa-firmware contains firmware drivers for a very small number of specialist sound cards only and I don't believe that includes your card.
Well.. I get a connection refused error in both konqueror and firefox whenever I try https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/ is there an alternative link to their bugtracker?
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