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khrath · Guest

I was having a similar problem and running alsaconf helped thanks cuddles!
My sound hardware is a Sound Blaster Audigy (I think its the "gamer" version, but it might be the "value" one - I am not sure) and I use the Cambridge FPS2000 Digital speakers using the proprietary digital interface.
To enable sound I did the following:
Booted Knoppix 4.0 DVD using "knoppix alsa=emu10k"
After the system booted, I ran a shell and switched to root mode with "su"
I then ran the "alsaconf" command Cuddles mentioned in (the now root mode) shell screen.
If you don't have the digital output I think you are done now. However, if you do use it (like me), then do the following too:
Run "alsamixer" in the same root enabled shell. Scroll over to the right to the "Audigy A" option (you have to keep going to the right with the arrow key and it will scoll into the screen - alsamixer has many different settings, so not all of them are displayed when you first launch it) and press "m" to un-mute the digital output's sound! (this took me 2 YEARS of digging around to find.) If you have a 4.1 system like mine you also want to scroll over to the "Surround" option and turn-up the volume for the rear speakers. I also bumped-up the sampling rate by moving to the "Audigy S option and pressing the up arrow key so it read 96000. Then press escape.
Sit back and enjoy awesome sound.
Think kind thoughts and say "thank you" to all the people in the open source community who's hard work made it possible for us to enjoy this (maybe even kick in a few $ to you favorite projects too.)

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