On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
> I just installed a new SB Live! card in my PC, and tonight I'm going to
> install Creative Labs drivers for it, but I wanted to know if anyone has had
> any experience with these drivers, and things I may want to watch for/avoid,
> never, EVER do.. ;-P
The drivers work but Kenny and I both fount that our systems started
locking up randomly with them installed. They do NOT provide the ability
to play MIDI through the on-board synth, and I'm not sure if they support
external MIDI yet either. Haven't tried, and don't care to.
I actually just downloaded some drivers from the ALSA project, wich seem
to work fine, though I still can't get the card to play any MIDI, except
externally. I have some equipment I can hook up to it that way (an old
MT-32) but I obviously would much rather have the card play the music,
since Ensoniq's stuff is exponentially better than the ancient Roland
synth...
I didn't get around to fixing /etc/conf.modules for the ALSA drivers
yet... If you don't load the right modules using modprobe (i.e. you used
insmod instead) there are about 20 modules that you need to load by hand,
and you must load them in the right order... That was fun. :) Of
course, once I figure out which modules I need to load via modprobe, it
should be no problem (according to the docs, which I've only skimmed so
far).
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "Who watches the watchmen?"
-Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive | A Nortel Company
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