Linux sound card problem

[Anubis08]

Which folder are soundfonts for default soundcard stored in. Loaded off Driver CD (realized too late driver cd is for windows). Also, if I remove the 5 soundfonts it installed will it start working. If I go into YaST (SUSE 9.2) and try to change sound the screen where normally it has all the controls is blank. I am a rookie at this. Thanks.

 

[drag]

I am not sure what soundfonts are....

And how did you load what off of the driver cd? Was it using "wine"?


What is your sound card....

Try this:
open up a terminal, a command line. Should be on your toolbar or maybe in the "system tools" section in your start menu. Not sure in Suse.
and type this command:
alsamixer

and see if you can get a little dos-style utility for adjusting audio levels.

 

[Anubis08]

On YAsT when I was first installing the OS when I was configuring my sound card (SB Audigy 2 ZS), it had a tab that said Install Sound fonts. I clicked on it and it said insert cd, I inserted my driver cd that came with the card and clicked okay. It said it had installed 5 soundfonts and gave the directory where they were located. I am wanting to know the directory as I have forgotten it and the soundfonts screwed up my sound on my computer. I am sure it was them because I tested my speakers before installing them and it worked fine, but now I cannot even test it.

 

[drag]

Sorry, I don't know anything about soundfonts. I know about setting up sound cards, but something like that is something I wouldn't think would screw them up.

if you know the name of one of the files then you can go in a terminal:

find / 2> /dev/null | grep name.of.file

and find the location of the installed files, then you can mv them out of there.

Try one of the Suse forums for help, with Yast stuff that is a Suse-only application and I dont' have any suse machines around at the momement....


I've been looking up stuff about soundfonts. They are for midi sound, right? I think they get installed in:
/usr/share/sounds/sf2/

Although the ones for your sound card from the driver cd should work....
However Audigy 2 is a bit different and since people don't do midi sound much anymore it's not realy tested (I am guessing).

What happenned when you tried to open up alsamixer?

 

[drag]

here is a article about midi stuff
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=979

Suse help forums
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/

Alsa (drivers for Linux) mailing lists is sometimes a good place to get help. I'd try the suse forums first.
http://www.alsa-project.org/mailing-lists.php

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Anubis08
On YAsT when I was first installing the OS when I was configuring my sound card (SB Audigy 2 ZS), it had a tab that said Install Sound fonts. I clicked on it and it said insert cd, I inserted my driver cd that came with the card and clicked okay. It said it had installed 5 soundfonts and gave the directory where they were located. I am wanting to know the directory as I have forgotten it and the soundfonts screwed up my sound on my computer. I am sure it was them because I tested my speakers before installing them and it worked fine, but now I cannot even test it.

How did you test your speakers if you didn't have Linux installed?

 

[Anubis08]

Thanks for the help drag. I am running in windows right now (dual boot) and the sound works fine. I will try the changes tonight and see what happens. By the way. how do you set up a sound card that is not shown in the list on the cd package? All the cd has is audigy ls and audigy soundblaster when I look now (I have not removed my original soundcard directory though), but when set up with the system initially it is displayed as an Audigy 2 ZS?