On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Alan Hughes wrote: > I originally fiddled with the mixer settings, volume and just about > everything else. Nothing worked, nada, just the big silence. Switching over > to the audigy (sp?) driver (which I understand is OSS) and everything worked > perfectly immediately. > Assuming you use analog speakers on rear channel:
Try again, use alsamixer or alsamixergui, mute the very last channel (analog output jack), increase Wave surround volume. Does it work now? Easier say: plug your speakers into front channel. Danny PS: the audigy driver is not really ment of a sblive, but will work. > My box is a dual P-III running the SMP kernel, vanilla RC3 with the > exception that I put the latest initscripts RPM on (USB problems as > previously reported here). > > I plan some more fiddling, but not until after 9.0 goes gold - I've got some > other things to do, including educating the wife on Linux so that she can > start to teach people at work. > > Alan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 1:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Cooker] RC3 Bugs (second try) > > > > On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Alan Hughes wrote: > > > > > Sorted it out last night, although I use HardDrake to set the OSS > driver. I > > > think that ALSA just does not support SoundBlaster Live properly (along > with > > I disagree, because it works fine for some other people. > > David may say it doesn't work but that is only because he gets artifacts > > on his specific systems. > > ALSA drivers work fine on most SBLives. But there are a few different > > kinds, and YMMV. Some people like ALSA better, because it supports more > > features and is the best maintained. I hope David will report the > > artifacts to alsa-devel, so they are fixed in the next version. > > > > Alan, it would be better to figure out why it was not working on your > > setup, because you did not really explain. If it was that you did not > > hear sone on your rear channel than it is a mixer configuration issue, > > which I hoped would be fixed, but you can always manually set your mixer > > correct. > > > > Danny > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
