> "Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
>
> > This is so weird. So many people have had problems with the SB Live
> > cards. I've got one, and it worked out of the box with both 7.0 and 7.1.
> > Only problems I've ever had (with both) is that I can't get music (sound
> > fx is fine) with Doom or Heretic.
> >
> > Am I just lucky? ;-)
> >
> > --
> > /\
> > Dark><Lord
> > \/
>
> Thats weird.. Ive installed different distros including 7.0 and 7.1 and no
> problems... hmmm...
I have SoundBlaster LIVE! Platinum.
I installed mandrake 7.1.
Though I had to tell Mandrake that I had a SCSI device (and IDE disk -
still don't understand that, waiting for anyone that does) to detect my
CD-ROM... doing nothing special other than a full development install
detected the card and propoerly installed the emu10kwhasit drivers. I get
sound effect, I can play music... I *CAN'T* use the daughter board (the
'live drive')... though Lothar is helpful enough to tell me it's there.
A question/request: I'd love to see docs somewhere on someone taking a
standard Mandrake 7.1 Development install and:
Upgrading successfully to xfree86 4.0.1,
installing the NVIDIA drivers for the GeForce card,
installing in full the SoundBlaster LIVE,
installing Quake 3 Arena succeffully.
Of course, it doesn't need to happen too soon, I still need to
test at the end of the next week - and temporarily leaving quake was
one of the reasons I nuked my windows partition. ;) From time to time I
find calculated destruction more effective than willful resolve.
I'm actually quite surprised such handholding documents don't exist for a
variety of cards/configs at a central location.
<shrug>
John
