It works great.
Follow my enclosed directions... --- SNIP --- I'm quoting my own message(s) to someone else about this who also had their SB Live misconfigured... The key is to remove ALL memory resident modules and references to them in /etc/modules.conf... Then after everything is cleared from RAM and the files, reconfigure the SBLive from the Mandrake Control Panel, and NOT from sndconfig. This greatly affects the configuration for the SBLive, and even gets the sound fonts & Midi Synth to work properly!!! (Yeah) |-----Original Message----- |From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 11:29 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] alsa or xmms? | | |On Saturday 27 October 2001 01:05 am, you wrote: |> In the KDE Control Center set; |> |> Sound I/O Method to Advanced Linux Sound Architecture |> |> & Yse Custom Sampling rate 48000 |> |> Sound Quality Autodetect. |> |> In General |> |> Turn ON "Start aRts soundserver on KDE start". |> |> BTW: Do you see the soundblaster midi devices under MIDI? |(You should |> see 4-5 devices under midi.) |> |> You should, if not you haven't configured your SBLIVE |properly and it |> should be redone... |> |> In Xmms, set Outplug plugin to eSound Output plugin & exit XMMS, do |> NOT play anything initially. The settings do not take until you exit |> and go back into XMMS. |> |> Then bring up Auxmix and turn everything up. Go back into |KDE-Control |> and "save" the volume levels. |> |> Reboot (or kill off any sound related processes & your |display manager |> for good measure, also restart the sound service.) |> |> Go back into KDE. |> |> Open a terminal and backspace. Instead of a beep, you should get a |> "bell" via your sound card. |> |> Do you? |> |> If so try out xmms now. |> |> -JMS |> |Hi, Jose, I show no midi devices and can not find the output plugin you |mention. I have done sndconfig a couple of times and still get |no midi config |how is this done? Thanks for your help | --- Snip --- Well you are missing A LOT!!! You will get all of this if you follow my directions under LM8.1 . Check out my "lsmod"... Module Size Used by agpgart 26752 3 (autoclean) NVdriver 715200 17 (autoclean) ncpfs 38000 1 (autoclean) binfmt_misc 6208 1 joydev 6176 0 (unused) emu10k1-gp 1456 0 (unused) analog 7488 0 (unused) gameport 1856 0 [emu10k1-gp analog] input 3648 0 [joydev analog] snd-synth-emu10k1 4432 0 (autoclean) snd-synth-emux 26784 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emu10k1] snd-seq-midi-emul 4944 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emux] snd-seq-virmidi 8304 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emux] snd-seq-midi 3552 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss 28944 0 snd-seq-midi-event 3216 0 [snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 41856 0 [snd-synth-emux snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 18624 0 snd-pcm-plugin 15792 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4800 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-card-emu10k1 2368 0 snd-emu10k1 22320 0 [snd-synth-emu10k1 snd-card-emu10k1] snd-pcm 31616 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-emu10k1] snd-timer 8528 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 10048 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1] snd-emux-mem 1776 0 [snd-synth-emux snd-emu10k1] snd-ac97-codec 25056 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-mixer 24544 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-ac97-codec] snd-seq-device 3984 0 [snd-synth-emu10k1 snd-synth-emux snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd 35248 1 [snd-synth-emux snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-emux-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-seq-device] soundcore 4208 9 [snd] parport_pc 20240 1 (autoclean) lp 5808 0 (autoclean) parport 24768 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] nfsd 70464 8 (autoclean) nfs 75072 6 (autoclean) lockd 51440 1 (autoclean) [nfsd nfs] sunrpc 66480 1 (autoclean) [nfsd nfs lockd] autofs4 9600 2 (autoclean) af_packet 12560 0 (autoclean) appletalk 21072 0 (autoclean) ipx 16640 18 (autoclean) ip_vs 62000 0 (autoclean) acquirewdt 1504 0 (unused) softdog 1584 0 (unused) usb-uhci 21232 0 (unused) usbcore 50752 1 [usb-uhci] 3c59x 25952 1 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2880 3 (autoclean) nls_cp850 3632 1 (autoclean) vfat 9968 1 (autoclean) fat 32192 0 (autoclean) [vfat] tuner 4784 1 (autoclean) bttv 57200 0 (unused) i2c-algo-bit 7328 1 [bttv] i2c-core 13600 0 [tuner bttv i2c-algo-bit] videodev 5056 2 [bttv] ide-scsi 8096 0 scsi_mod 91072 1 [ide-scsi] rtc 5600 0 (autoclean) reiserfs 158304 2 |-----Original Message----- |From: Linux Fan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 7:05 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] Alsa and SoundBlaster Live! (and Joysticks!) | | |On Friday 19 October 2001 08:31 am, you wrote: | |Jose, | Here is the output from my lsmod with the SB Live! | |Module Size Used by |emu10k1 49584 0 |ac97_codec 9344 0 [emu10k1] |soundcore 3600 4 [emu10k1] | | what else am I missing? Any |advice/thoughts/suggestions greatly appreciated. | | Thanks in advance. Cheers. | |> I had numerous problems with the Soundblaster Live under Linux. |> |> Normally the KDE sound servers either failed to start, produced no |> sound, or interfered with audio output on some applications. |> |> I then remembered that the SBLIVE has a fixed sampling rate which |> caused problems for apps under Winblows... |> |> Sure enough changing the sampling rate to 48000 and setting KDE to |> autodetect permitted all the aRts and OSS applications to work |> properly. The sound servers always come up properly now too. |> |> BTW: The LM8.1 install configures the SBLIVE, but it doesn't seem to |> load all of the modules. |> |> Do an lsmod. |> |> You should remove all modules for RAM using rmmod, then reconfigure |> the soundblaster in the Control Panel. |> |> Reboot the system, (yeah really) and now do an lsmod, you'll |see twice |> as many interrelated modules appear. |> |> Next bring up the AuMixer in KDE & set the volumes. Go into the KDE |> control panel and "save" the mixer settings. |> |> This modifies the ALSA-CTRL files to set the volumes upon bootup. |> |> Finally dump some sound fonts onto your system and load them with |> sfxload. |> |> I recommend http://www.thesoundsite.net/ for some wonderfull |> collections of freebee sound fonts. |> |> Set your midi in the KDE Control Panel (it finally works yeah!) |> |> Note: the SBLIVE under Linux cannot seem to load sound fonts greater |> than 32 megs properly. It actually loads them, but some |voices do not |> sound. I assume that this is because the SFXLOAD program |cannot handle |> the back switching required for larger fonts. |> |> To get the joystick port to work, add this to /etc/modules.conf |> |> "alias char-major-13 input" |> "above input joydev emu10k1-gp analog gameport" |> |> Then add |> |> "/sbin/modprobe joydev" |> |> Into /etc/rc.local |> |> There probably is another way of doing this, but this works fine for |> me. |> |> |> BTW: |> Anyway, hope this helps... |> |> -JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Timothy R.Butler |Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 12:23 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [expert] SB Live Synth? | | |Hi again everyone, | I've been trying to get my midi synth setup on LM 8.1, and I'm a bit |stumped. It looks like Mandrake installed Alsa, but setup my card with |OSS/Lite? *sigh* | Is it possible to get DrakeConf to use Alsa instead? Or, |does the Kernel |perhaps have the experimental midi synth for SB Live compiled |into it? Any |comments on success on this sort of thing would be appreciated. | | Thanks, | Tim | |-- |----------------------------------------------------------------- |Timothy R. Butler | Universal Networks | http://www.uninet.info |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 12495932 AIM: Uninettm |Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com |Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz |============== "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ============== | |
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