Since this is a frequent question, I will repost my message of two weeks ago.
The Soundblaster Live! uses the umu10k1 chipset, so you need to find
drivers for it,like Richard Adams said.
Since it is pretty new, this soundboard is still not covered bt the
how-tos, faqs, etc.
There are SB Live drivers that will work - I have one, and it is working
with my Red Hat/Conectiva Linux installation. You need to download and
compile the drivers from the Creative Labs page.
Get the drivers from http://www.opensource.creative.com. or maybe
http://opensource.creative.com
Modify your conf.modules like this:
alias sound emu10k1
options emu10k1 joystick=0x200
Then:
"make depend"
"make clean"
"make"
"make install".
Run:
"depmod -a"
"insmod soundcore"
"modprobe emu10k1".
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