using aumix didn't seem to help (SLAB for example, allows me
to change the same settings)
many people seem to be able to use the soundblaster live card,
so i don't think it is because of bad drivers (although maybe ours
is not configured right).
i installed mandrake-complete 7.0 which loaded the drivers in
during boot, the card is detected, and when i ran sndconfig,
it had no problem playing me a nice sample and finding the card.
the only thing that gives me pause, is that when i type
cat /dev/sndstat
i get (among other things):
Card config:
(Sound Blaster Live! at 0xcc00 irq 9)
apparently the brackets mean that the card was configured but
not detected (according to the sound how-to)???
and yet, when i boot up, i get a message saying that the sound card
was detected.
i really can't figure out what is going wrong.
any help would be appreciated.
jonathan
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Paco wrote:
Hi...
I've got the SB PCI512, which uses the same chipset as the Live!,
and I've got the same problem. No matter what I do I am unable
to record a thing. I don't think the support for the emu10k1
chip is quite up to speed yet, but...
Which drivers are you using?
If you're using OSS/Commercial drivers (like I am), you should
write to 4front technologies and tell them. I've had some long
talks with them , but they just keep gauranteeing me that the
drivers work fine.
You can get the address form their website: http://www.opensound.com
If you're using the ones from Creative Labs themselves (via ALSA),
well... I'v never gotten those to do anything for me... not even
play audio.
I just think our cards are a bit too new for Linux. 8^)
peace,
-Paco
Jonathan Oppenheim wrote:
>
> i cannot record anything, although no trouble
> hearing sound through both the mike and line in.
>
> no program seems to want to bother even trying to record.
>
> for example, SLAB, just sits there, with the counter stopped
> at 0 after pushing the REC PAUSE and then the PLAY button.
> I can hear myself play, but it makes no attempt to record any sound.
>
> Likewise, using kvoice, i push record, in the new greeting dialogue
> box, and the new greeting message window just disappears, and that's it.
>
> i also try typing "dd bs=8k cound=4 </dev/audio > sample.au"
>
> this creates the file sample.au but the file is empty
> (at least, i see nothing when i type "more sample.au" or "kedit
> sample.au", but it must have something in it, because it is 32768 bytes
> long)
>
> i have a soundblaster live! card, under mandrake 7.0
> when i configured the card (using sndconfig) it found
> the card without any problem.
>
> perhaps an interupt problem??
>
> any help would be appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> jonathan
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