is it possible to get sound with the 2.4.27 kernel & audigy card (emu10k1 driver)?

i got sound in libranet with the 2.4.18 kernel but am having no luck in debian/2.4.27

i tried installing the driver manually (untar, make,etc) & adding emu10k1 to /etc/modules but no luck, at one point rendering the puter unbootable.

I also had the emu10k1 driver built into the kernel & changed it to a module but that did nothing.

i have alsa installed but understand 2.4.27 dont do alsa. I thought of uninstalling it but havent as i am also running the 2.6.8 kernel which, i believe, does use it.

i've found a number of procedures for the emu10k1 but they dont work/outdated. this stuff is very kernel specific. it would be nice if incrementing the kernel by a tenth of a point didn't trash the drivers.

Another thing you could try is finding out which drivers are loaded in libranet and then compare to what you're running in debian to see if anything's missing or that there might be another problem.

I'm also a bit confused, which kernel are you using the 2.4 or 2.6.8 and does it work in either and do you want it working in one specific?

Im running both kernels right now. I originally installed with 2.4 then added 2.6.8

2.6.8 has its own problems but i have sound with it.

Im trying to get it to work in 2.4 cause it works in libranet with a 2.4 & also theres a specific selection in the 2.4 kernel config for the emu101k driver. I've selected that & sound support as a module.

Acutually, I'm on the verge of erasing everything & starting over. Last night I tried installing alsa to the 2.4, cause I read you need it with the emu driver, & got an out of diskspace message!

I been apt-getting & recompiling like crazy trying to fix problems so thats probably the reason. Still, its a 4.5Gb root partition. Sure did fill up fast.

So far, I'm less than impressed with pure debian. Maybe I should reinstall sarge & upgrade to sid. Both kanotix & libranet work much better, at least with my hardware, & I understand that theyre debian based, but not sarge. I think kanotix is mixed & libranet 2.7 is woody (modified).

If you have been apt-getting a lot it can be that there's a lot of packages you downloaded that are saved. You can delete those with "apt-get clean". If you use a lot of packages, easpecially graphic heavy stuff it's possible to fill up a 4.5 gb root partition. But you should get some space free with "apt-get clean"

Well debian lets you setup stuff yourself where libranet and kanotix make choices for you. Pure debian is way less bloated cause you often don't have things installed you don't need. If you're new to linux or debian sid isn't really recommended. Of course you can try it as a learning experience but you should keep in mind that you can run into errors. Sid doesn't improve your audio anyway, since you just have to set it up yourself. Can you post which modules you're loading for your card as I recently saw a thread about that driver in which the topic poster loaded the wrong module. This wasn't very clear and you wouldn't notice it unless you searched for it that it was the wrong module.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hlight=emu10k1

this is the thread. Notice you should use the emu10k1 driver and not snd-emu10k1

But I'd still try to see the differences between the modules loaded in debian and libranet so that you find out which it is. And can think of possible other errors.

Hope this helps a bit.