[LAU] E-MU 1212m soundcard installation help for the blind

Hello everyone! So, I've got an E-MU 1212m PCIE (PCI express) soundcard now. And it doesn't work. so there are a few questions. First it's mebeing blid and not familiar with PCIE slots. There are two cards. Youcan see the product from alsa-project.org or I can give you a direct link to the manual off-list. So in my PC I have one full PCI express slot (a long one, almost like a PCI slot) and I've got a short one. A friend supposed PCIE 1. there there are two cards a big one, the one with the digital I/O, which I slotted into the small slot and a small card (the analogue I/O and MIDI I/O), which I slotted into the long slot. So far so good. My lspci gives me: [...] 03:00.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor Device e111 (rev 02) 04:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value I think these two are new, I didn't recognise them and they are right at the end of the list. I have compile ALSA modules for everything E-MU/creative labs (10K1, 10K1X, the dell bit and 20K2). My ALSA version is 1.0.23 and kernel version is 2.6.38 (self-compiled). Still ALSA doesn't give any new soundcard. The two cards are coorectly connected with the IDE-like cable, but not screwed in. Still they look firm enough. Any ideas? Would that be the wrong slot for the big card (the main board of the two, I think)? Or is the ALSA driver not detecting it correctly? Should lspci show more? Remember, I can't see myself and the sighted people around me are so NOT into computers, that they aren't of any help really. Thanks for a ny good advise! Warm regards Julien ---------------------------------------- http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html