Digital output on the SBLive cards does NOT come from the "Green" output jack.
Rather from the YELLOW sub-miniture jack normally used for the Center Channel/Subwoofer, if your card supports this. The card must be set in software to support digital I/O Check the specs (I have). The green jack is analog only AFAIK. -JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jim Gentry |Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:00 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2, SB Live & Digital Speakers | | |FemmeFatale wrote: | |>*gack!* Digital output? I'd verify a sneaky suspicion I have. Dell |>sent out Live cards too... With a caveat, they had engineered them |>somehow so they weren't normal LIVE cards anymore! |> |>They lacked certain features. |> |>Check gateways site or newsgroups archives for an answer? |> |>Femme |> |>Jim Gentry wrote: |> |>>I have installed ML 8.0, 8.1 and now 8.2 on my Gateway Pentium III. |>>On 8.0 and 8.1, I could not get satisfactory sound from the Gateway |>>OEM version of the SoundBlaster Live Value card that came with the |>>machine. I have the Boston Acoustic Digital speaker set, but the |>>default installation of ALSA 0.5.10(?) sets the master output of the |>>card to analog signal. I have confirmed this with an old pair of |>>speakers. ML 8.2 sets up sound much more reliably than the previous |>>versions -- I even get sound now from my Hauppauge TV card, but the |>>output is still analog. |>>
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