What am i doing wrong?

mad duck · **Posted:** Sat 01-08-2005 12:43AM

I recently formatted my HD and therefore lost my sound drivers. I have obtained the latest sound drivers for my mobo (sound card integrated RealTek) installed them, installed Directx 9.0c, Windows Media codecs, Winamp Codecs, any thing else i can find, but still when i run winamp or try to get some kind of sound, i get the error "Bad Sound driver". I have tried re-downloading from diff. sites so it shouldn't be the drivers themselves. Can't seem to figgure out what i'm missing.

GeForce 5500
Realtek integrated sound card
Amd 1.8? gig proc
Windows 2000

Thanks for any help offered

nohandll · **Posted:** Sat 01-08-2005 12:21PM

Your first problem is you are using windows.

After that, check in devise manager to see if the driver installed correctly. If it didn't, there will be a ? or ! over the sound card's driver. Try installing the driver from the device manager. Also check that the driver is for Windows 2000, you may not want the latest driver, which may be for Windows XP. Also check that your windows 2000 is SP3, a lot of drivers won't work on ealier stuff. Also, in Winamp, what do you have as your output device? I have had trouble before w/ the direct sound output, try using the choice that is your soundcard.

zkissane · **Posted:** Sat 01-08-2005 2:17PM

nohandll wrote:

Your first problem is you are using windows.

And driver management is better in Linux?

Mee · **Posted:** Sat 01-08-2005 3:12PM

zkissane wrote:

nohandll wrote:

Your first problem is you are using windows.

And driver management is better in Linux?

modprobe snd-intel8x0

so, in my opinion, yes. i dont believe it is easier, but i do believe it is better.

GenPFault · **Posted:** Sat 01-08-2005 5:50PM

Mee wrote:

zkissane wrote:

nohandll wrote:

Your first problem is you are using windows.

And driver management is better in Linux?

modprobe snd-intel8x0

so, in my opinion, yes. i dont believe it is easier, but i do believe it is better.

...until you realize the intel8x0 driver does not support hardware mixing, and Alsa software mixing is rather, well, non-intuitive. Not to mention unsupported when using OSS emulation.

Of course, I'd love to be proved wrong, especially on the last two points.

Mee · **Posted:** Sat 01-08-2005 7:37PM

as far as i can tell, oss emulation and dmix get along just fine. i could play an mp3 in xmms (alsa) and wc3 under wine (oss) at the same time just fine.

the rest of what you said is true, but thats really a problem with the intel/ac'97 driver itself, not linux's "driver management".

GenPFault · **Posted:** Sat 01-08-2005 8:10PM

Mee wrote:

as far as i can tell, oss emulation and dmix get along just fine. i could play an mp3 in xmms (alsa) and wc3 under wine (oss) at the same time just fine.

the rest of what you said is true, but thats really a problem with the intel/ac'97 driver itself, not linux's "driver management".

Care to post your .asoundrc?

Mee · **Posted:** Sat 01-08-2005 8:57PM

here's mine in its entirety, but ive got a 2 card setup. you'll need to leave off the last 2 chunks and change "card 1" to "card 0" in line 3.

Code:

pcm.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 1
}

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "nforce"
}

pcm.nforce {
type dmix
ipc_key 1234
slave { 
        pcm "hw:0,0"
        period_time 0
        period_size 1024
        buffer_size 4096
        rate 44100
        }
}

ctl.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}

pcm.sblive {
        type hw
        card 0
}

ctl.sblive {
        type hw
        card 0
}

What am i doing wrong?

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