I have noticed a lot of people from newsgroups, mailing list, and irc
channels have had trouble installing there Soundblaster Live for use
under linux. Since this my be your problem and this a newbie mailing
list after all. Here is my mini how-to on Soundblaster Live!
Creative Labs currently has their soundcard drivers currently at 0.3b
but their is a problem with this. The are only offically made for kenels
2.0.36-0.7(RH), 2.2.5-15(RH), and 2.2.10. Since you may have upgraded to
a most recent verison of kernel these drivers may or may not work. I
think they do work if you force them to work and but this is tedious and
drooling process. I will present a easier way
Step 1: Go to this ftp and get the source files:
(ftp://opensource.creative.com/pub/snapshots/)
Step 2: Next after you have gotten this file you must uncompress the
file by typing tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz
Step 3: Go into the directory where the files were umcompressed to and
type in these commands
make dep
make clean
make (Don't worry about warning: unused variable 'sblive_spinlock' or
'kernel version' defind but not used in main.c, spinlock is primarily
used on SMP systems to lock interupts on one processor and main.c is not
kernel version depended)
make install #When no using module verison info, sometimes the driver is
put in /lib/misc/ instead of /lib/modules/kernel#/misc
Then run depmod -a kernel# in your modules directory
After that command then you do this - modprobe emu10k1. (If it fails,
run insmod soundcore before that)
Now here are some tips to automate so you don't have to modprobe
everytime you boot into linux.
Add these following lines in to your /etc/conf.moudules (SuSe, RH,
Slackware, Debian.) On the rare distros this could be modules.conf or
rc.modules
alias sound emu10k1
#pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore
#post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore
options emu10k1 joystick 0x200
#These lines are only needed if you did this (CONFIG_MODVERISONS=Y)
#This means if you have module verison checking
After installing this file, do some sound test by playing some wavs,
mp3s, and midi. It will be music to your ears.
Because these are daily builds, I suggest you upgrade every 5-7 days and
why not since compiling source is so much fun anyways
I hope you are succesful in install the modules so you can use your
Soundblaster Live! under the better Operating system.
Have Fun
Alexander Roberts
