Debian Potato (frozen) with Slink KDE I have just bought my first ever soundcard, a SoundBlaster Live 1024 Player, and my attempts to setup sound have been only partially successful.
I first tried the latest (20000721) Creative Emu driver. Downloaded, compiled the source and installed the modules. First problem - the module(s) won't load automatically as other modules do. I can, of course, load them with modprobe and, using kscd, I can play a CD successfully. But I would rather have them load automatically. Is there a way to do this? I have also ldownoaded an application called Broadcast which records onto the hard drive. However the record/playback part of this doesn't work and displays a message in the console window to the effect that it cannot access the sound device. Perhaps it won't work with the emu drivers but there is no clue in the documentation as to what the sound device is from this applications point of view. The appropriate sound devices do appear to be in /dev (audio, dsp, midi, mixer, sequencer, sndstat). I then decided to try the Alsa drivers and installed the appropriate Alsa Potato packages. This appeared to successful except that there were no actual driver modules included or installed. I find this a bit puzzling. I downloaded matching version drivers from the Alsa site and installed them. The nearest card in the list was a SB PCI 128 but the module would not load (device busy). Incompatible with the 1024 perhaps. I removed the Alsa stuff altogether. Any advice would be welcome as I am a total beginner when it comes to sound. Barry Samuels