Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
I've tried that but it doesn't work either... Point is I've got both SB and a sound card integrated in my motherboard, which uses the via82xx module. Whatever options I choose, it is the intedgrated card which plays sound, whereas the SB remains shut up. Even selecting Sound Blaster from KMix doesn't change a thing. I tried to edit /etc/modules.conf to exclude the via drivers but they are loaded anyway Does anyone know how not to let them be loaded at boot time? - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 2:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live On Friday 02 April 2004 09:54 am, Marco Terzuoli wrote: Hi, I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 Community and I have a problem having my Sound Blaster Live working correctly. Actually the installer recognizes it and (hopefully) installs the correct driver, but there is no way of hearing anything, except from interferences from the microphone and such things (which anyhow means that in some weird way the system communicates with the sound card). I tried to fix things up using KMix and the sound configuration tool to switch from ALSA to OSS and stuff like that, but I could only manage to get rid of the interferences, which means I hear nothing at all Also, I would like to point out that I had some problems running xmms... it actually starts, but usually crashes withins seconds (even though sometimes, with no apparent reason, it works well meaning that I can see the freequency bars going up and down, of course I hear nothing). Looking through the net I found that it is due to some glib problem, but no solution to it was given, so if someone knows what to do please tell me. Thanks everybody, Marco PS I'm sorry if some of you got this message twice, but I received an error saying that it could not be delivered to all of the users in the list, s o I sent it again Marco, try this, go into the Mandrake Control Center and choose hardware and click on the sound card you have showing on the left, then on the right side click run configuration. There is usually three driver choices once it gets to that point, if it shows yours using the snd-emu10k1 choose to use just the emu10k1 and vice versa, it may show audigy, choose either of the others, one of them will work. HTH -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
On Saturday 03 April 2004 07:34 am, Marco Terzuoli wrote: I've tried that but it doesn't work either... Point is I've got both SB and a sound card integrated in my motherboard, which uses the via82xx module. Whatever options I choose, it is the intedgrated card which plays sound, whereas the SB remains shut up. Even selecting Sound Blaster from KMix doesn't change a thing. I tried to edit /etc/modules.conf to exclude the via drivers but they are loaded anyway Does anyone know how not to let them be loaded at boot time? - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 2:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live On Friday 02 April 2004 09:54 am, Marco Terzuoli wrote: Hi, I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 Community and I have a problem having my Sound Blaster Live working correctly. Actually the installer recognizes it and (hopefully) installs the correct driver, but there is no way of hearing anything, except from interferences from the microphone and such things (which anyhow means that in some weird way the system communicates with the sound card). I tried to fix things up using KMix and the sound configuration tool to switch from ALSA to OSS and stuff like that, but I could only manage to get rid of the interferences, which means I hear nothing at all Also, I would like to point out that I had some problems running xmms... it actually starts, but usually crashes withins seconds (even though sometimes, with no apparent reason, it works well meaning that I can see the freequency bars going up and down, of course I hear nothing). Looking through the net I found that it is due to some glib problem, but no solution to it was given, so if someone knows what to do please tell me. Thanks everybody, Marco PS I'm sorry if some of you got this message twice, but I received an error saying that it could not be delivered to all of the users in the list, s o I sent it again Marco, try this, go into the Mandrake Control Center and choose hardware and click on the sound card you have showing on the left, then on the right side click run configuration. There is usually three driver choices once it gets to that point, if it shows yours using the snd-emu10k1 choose to use just the emu10k1 and vice versa, it may show audigy, choose either of the others, one of them will work. HTH -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Ok, one last shot, did you disable the onboard sound card in the mobo BIOS? -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live
Title: RE: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security. Hi, I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 Community and I have a problem having my Sound Blaster Live working correctly. Actually the installer recognizes it and (hopefully) installs the correct driver, but there is no way of hearing anything, except from interferences from the microphone and such things (which anyhow means that in some weird way the system communicates with the sound card). I tried to fix things up using KMix and the sound configuration tool to switch from ALSA to OSS and stuff like that, but I could only manage to get rid of the interferences, which means I hear nothing at all Also, I would like to point out that I had some problems running xmms... it actually starts, but usually crashes withins seconds (even though sometimes, with no apparent reason, it works well meaning that I can see the freequency bars going up and down, of course I hear nothing). Looking through the net I found that it is due to some glib problem, but no solution to it was given, so if someone knows what to do please tell me. Thanks everybody, Marco
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live
Hi, I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 Community and I have a problem having my Sound Blaster Live working correctly. Actually the installer recognizes it and (hopefully) installs the correct driver, but there is no way of hearing anything, except from interferences from the microphone and such things (which anyhow means that in some weird way the system communicates with the sound card). I tried to fix things up using KMix and the sound configuration tool to switch from ALSA to OSS and stuff like that, but I could only manage to get rid of the interferences, which means I hear nothing at all Also, I would like to point out that I had some problems running xmms... it actually starts, but usually crashes withins seconds (even though sometimes, with no apparent reason, it works well meaning that I can see the freequency bars going up and down, of course I hear nothing). Looking through the net I found that it is due to some glib problem, but no solution to it was given, so if someone knows what to do please tell me. Thanks everybody, Marco PS I'm sorry if some of you got this message twice, but I received an error saying that it could not be delivered to all of the users in the list, so I sent it again
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live
Hi, I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 Community and I have a problem having my Sound Blaster Live working correctly. Actually the installer recognizes it and (hopefully) installs the correct driver, but there is no way of hearing anything, except from interferences from the microphone and such things (which anyhow means that in some weird way the system communicates with the sound card). I tried to fix things up using KMix and the sound configuration tool to switch from ALSA to OSS and stuff like that, but I could only manage to get rid of the interferences, which means I hear nothing at all Also, I would like to point out that I had some problems running xmms... it actually starts, but usually crashes withins seconds (even though sometimes, with no apparent reason, it works well meaning that I can see the freequency bars going up and down, of course I hear nothing). Looking through the net I found that it is due to some glib problem, but no solution to it was given, so if someone knows what to do please tell me. Thanks everybody, Marco
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! MIDI input/output under Mandrake 9.1
On Saturday 14 June 2003 04:24, The Other wrote: 06/13/03 Hello All, Since I'm not having any luck locating drivers for my Midiman, Winman 4x4/s MIDI ISA interface card, I'll looking into going back to the single MIDI input/output cable coming off the joystick port of my SB LIve! Value card. My Roland Sound Expansion MIDI modules will allow MIDI passthrough, so the single MIDI in/out from the SB Live! card should be able to drive 2 Roland MIDI modules. Anyone have experience using the SB Live! MIDI in/out port? If so, how did you set it up in various software programs. I'm using KDE 3.1 and its associated sound applications. Is there a configuration file I should be aware of? I've not learned about config files under Linux yet. A tutorial on how to get MIDI through a MIDI port working would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, The Other This seems a good link for you: Linux Audio Users Guide http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/index.php Unfortunately the midi link times out at the moment :( aconnect from Mandrakes alsa-utils rpm can list MIDI ports (input and output) and lets you make connections between them (like sending MIDI from an external keyboard to your SBLive wavetable synthesizer). You can use playmidi (there is a Mandrake rpm) to play MIDI to the external port with 'playmidi -e something.wav'. Both aconnect and playmidi have man pages. ALSA patch bay is a GUI for aconnect. Have fun! -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! MIDI input/output under Mandrake 9.1
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 3:24 am, The Other wrote: 06/13/03 Hello All, Since I'm not having any luck locating drivers for my Midiman, Winman 4x4/s MIDI ISA interface card, I'll looking into going back to the single MIDI input/output cable coming off the joystick port of my SB LIve! Value card. My Roland Sound Expansion MIDI modules will allow MIDI passthrough, so the single MIDI in/out from the SB Live! card should be able to drive 2 Roland MIDI modules. Anyone have experience using the SB Live! MIDI in/out port? There is a program called emu10k1-tools, which might help. I can't say if it does, because I haven't managed to get it working with my audigy. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live! MIDI input/output under Mandrake 9.1
06/13/03 Hello All, Since I'm not having any luck locating drivers for my Midiman, Winman 4x4/s MIDI ISA interface card, I'll looking into going back to the single MIDI input/output cable coming off the joystick port of my SB LIve! Value card. My Roland Sound Expansion MIDI modules will allow MIDI passthrough, so the single MIDI in/out from the SB Live! card should be able to drive 2 Roland MIDI modules. Anyone have experience using the SB Live! MIDI in/out port? If so, how did you set it up in various software programs. I'm using KDE 3.1 and its associated sound applications. Is there a configuration file I should be aware of? I've not learned about config files under Linux yet. A tutorial on how to get MIDI through a MIDI port working would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1
Thanks to Stephen Kuhn and Bryan Tyson. The EMUL10K1 driver was already loaded and the hint from Stephen and Bryan Tyson on checking the mixers fixed the problem. Once I knew what I was looking for, I found the back ground speakers were turned completely down. -- Everything works fine now. Thanks again David On Thursday 12 December 2002 11:26 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:54, David Williams wrote: I noticed that my sound card (Sound Blaster Live 5.1) wasn't playing background to the back speakers and sub-woofer when I installed Mandrake 9.0. As near as I can figure, I need to install the EMUL10K1 driver. However, it appears that I need to recompile, etc. etc. etc. Before I did all of this, I wanted to see ifanyone knew if I was doing the right thing or if I was hunting through the weeds in the wrong direction. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1
I noticed that my sound card (Sound Blaster Live 5.1) wasn't playing background to the back speakers and sub-woofer when I installed Mandrake 9.0. As near as I can figure, I need to install the EMUL10K1 driver. However, it appears that I need to recompile, etc. etc. etc. Before I did all of this, I wanted to see ifanyone knew if I was doing the right thing or if I was hunting through the weeds in the wrong direction. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:54, David Williams wrote: I noticed that my sound card (Sound Blaster Live 5.1) wasn't playing background to the back speakers and sub-woofer when I installed Mandrake 9.0. As near as I can figure, I need to install the EMUL10K1 driver. However, it appears that I need to recompile, etc. etc. etc. Before I did all of this, I wanted to see ifanyone knew if I was doing the right thing or if I was hunting through the weeds in the wrong direction. David Isn't the module already loaded for the EMUL10K1? You can open a term and type lsmod to see: Module Size Used byTainted: PF sr_mod 16920 0 (autoclean) sg 33476 0 (autoclean) appletalk 24204 0 mod_quickcam 41540 0 videodev6624 1 [mod_quickcam] lp 8864 0 (autoclean) ppp_deflate 4032 0 (autoclean) zlib_deflate 21344 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate] ppp_async 8256 1 (autoclean) hsfbasic2 115756 2 (autoclean) hsfserial 20512 1 (autoclean) hsfengine1113964 0 (autoclean) [hsfserial] hsfosspec 34808 1 (autoclean) [hsfbasic2 hsfserial hsfengine] ppp_generic24108 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate ppp_async] slhc6508 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic] emu10k164096 2 (autoclean) ac97_codec 11904 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1] sound 72012 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1] soundcore 6692 7 (autoclean) [emu10k1 sound] agpgart39488 3 (autoclean) NVdriver 1149024 10 (autoclean) via686a 9924 0 (unused) eeprom 4288 0 (unused) lm806624 0 (unused) i2c-proc8160 0 [via686a eeprom lm80] i2c-isa 1892 0 (unused) i2c-viapro 4968 0 (unused) i2c-core 18720 0 [via686a eeprom lm80 i2c-proc i2c-isa i2c-viapro] nls_iso8859-1 3488 2 (autoclean) nls_cp437 5120 2 (autoclean) vfat 12092 2 (autoclean) fat37400 0 (autoclean) [vfat] binfmt_misc 7556 1 vmnet 23616 6 parport_pc 18724 1 parport34208 1 [lp parport_pc] vmmon 22836 0 autofs 12164 0 (autoclean) (unused) 8139too16448 1 mii 2408 0 [8139too] ipchains 43560 18 ide-scsi9664 0 ide-cd 30272 0 cdrom 32192 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] usb-uhci 24484 0 (unused) usbcore73152 1 [mod_quickcam usb-uhci] ext3 67136 2 jbd49400 2 [ext3] aic7xxx 124768 0 sd_mod 12864 0 scsi_mod 108576 5 [sr_mod sg ide-scsi aic7xxx sd_mod] ...and if it's not loaded already, try doing an insmod emu10k1 to see if that loads it. Depending on how your system is setup, you might have to check the aRTS controls and system mixers... -- Fri Dec 13 15:20:00 EST 2002 3:20pm up 2 days, 7:42, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.20, 0.15 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn If voting could change the system, it would be illegal. If not voting could change the system, it would be illegal. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1
On Thursday 12 December 2002 23:26, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Depending on how your system is setup, you might have to check the aRTS controls and system mixers... Yes, in my case I had no sound in the rear speakers, but I found gamix, which solved my problem. I opened gamix and found the surround slider was turned all the way down. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sound blaster live, and audio cd's problem M8.1
Hi I'm having a weird problem with my SB Live. Alsa starts up fine and finds the card fine. But all the mixers have the card as a Sigmatel STAC97081/11, if I run sndconfig. It finds the card fine, but when it trys to play the test I get: /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz:ini t_modules: No Such Device /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: insmod sound-slot-0 failed I do get sound playing from XMMS and from flight gear. But this doesn't seem right. I can't get audio cd's to work at all. If I try to play them without mounting it says it can't find the CDROM and if I try to mount them it says invalid format. Any ideas? Thanx Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] sound blaster live, and audio cd's problem M8.1
See my prior posts about this in this thread. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert MacLean |Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 5:03 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] sound blaster live, and audio cd's problem M8.1 | | |Hi | |I'm having a weird problem with my SB Live. Alsa starts up |fine and finds the card fine. But all the mixers have the card |as a Sigmatel STAC97081/11, if I run sndconfig. It finds the |card fine, but when it trys to play the test I get: |/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz:ini |t_modules: No Such Device |/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: |insmod |/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: |failed |/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: |insmod sound-slot-0 failed | |I do get sound playing from XMMS and from flight gear. But |this doesn't seem right. | |I can't get audio cd's to work at all. If I try to play them |without mounting it says it can't find the CDROM and if I try |to mount them it says invalid format. Any ideas? | |Thanx |Robert | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound blaster live
s wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:08 am, Paul Rodríguez wrote: I believe the Sound Blaster Live! card is supposed to work out of the box in Mandrake 8.0, is this right? What I mean by this is installing a new system with Mandrake 8, it would auto detect my SB Live! (i think). If this is the case what do I do to get mandrake to recognize the card *after* I have already installed the os? -Paul Rodríguez Just make sure kudzu or hardware detection is turned on in services before you shut down to install. As an alternative, you might try sndconfig after booting. -s Hi Paul. Hi s. ;-) Here, under my setup, when using the graphical logon, I had to drop to a shell, and run kudzu as root to detect new hardware. Now, since I don't do a graphical logon (I've got a Nvidia Geforce, and kdm kills 3D accel.), kudzu kicks in automagically. Just a thought... PS Do run sndconfig, it should set u right up. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sound blaster live
I believe the Sound Blaster Live! card is supposed to work out of the box in Mandrake 8.0, is this right? What I mean by this is installing a new system with Mandrake 8, it would auto detect my SB Live! (i think). If this is the case what do I do to get mandrake to recognize the card *after* I have already installed the os? -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound blaster live
On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:08 am, Paul Rodríguez wrote: I believe the Sound Blaster Live! card is supposed to work out of the box in Mandrake 8.0, is this right? What I mean by this is installing a new system with Mandrake 8, it would auto detect my SB Live! (i think). If this is the case what do I do to get mandrake to recognize the card *after* I have already installed the os? -Paul Rodríguez Just make sure kudzu or hardware detection is turned on in services before you shut down to install. As an alternative, you might try sndconfig after booting. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound blaster live
Thanks! I forgot about sndconfig, didn't even have it installed. You know, this is the first time I've successfully heard Linus' voice via the program? I remember my first try at Linux, Linus refused to speak, and ever since then, my sound cards have been detected automagically. Thanks again. -Paul Rodríguez On 21 Sep 2001 23:26:11 -0400, s wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:08 am, Paul Rodríguez wrote: I believe the Sound Blaster Live! card is supposed to work out of the box in Mandrake 8.0, is this right? What I mean by this is installing a new system with Mandrake 8, it would auto detect my SB Live! (i think). If this is the case what do I do to get mandrake to recognize the card *after* I have already installed the os? -Paul Rodríguez Just make sure kudzu or hardware detection is turned on in services before you shut down to install. As an alternative, you might try sndconfig after booting. -s =_1001132583-779-839 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Value
Many thanks to all those who helped with my problem of upgrading to KDE 2.1.1 .. I was finally able to get things working (after spending literally hours weeding through all the dependency issues there were). Everything seems to work just wonderfully, except for my sound card. The module is loaded correctly at boot, and within KDE. The KDE Control Center recognizes the sound card just fine, but no sound comes out. Any ideas? Terry __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Value
On Saturday 07 April 2001 11:23 am, you wrote: Many thanks to all those who helped with my problem of upgrading to KDE 2.1.1 .. I was finally able to get things working (after spending literally hours weeding through all the dependency issues there were). Everything seems to work just wonderfully, except for my sound card. The module is loaded correctly at boot, and within KDE. The KDE Control Center recognizes the sound card just fine, but no sound comes out. Any ideas? Terry __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ Do you possibly have a list of the files you had to install and what version they are? I gave up after about 12 hrs of trying cause the dependency list was growing at an exponential rate : )' -- Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer
Can anyone tell me how to get my sound blaster x-gamer running? I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed and have tried many online tutorials on how to get a SB live running and have had no luck. LM knows it's there but when I try hard drake it errors out. I would like to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.x before I get the sound blaster running. Is that a smart thing to do? Thanks for any help! --Matt
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer
I have a pci Sound Blaster Live and /usr/sbin/sndconfig did mine! Sounds great too with my Altec Lansing speakers. It sounds as good as it does under windows with Creatives' bloated drivers and software. It won't work for you? When I switched to 2.4.0, it set it up and my pci modem automatically. (I mean I had a configuration from previous kernel, but with this other machine, I had to set the modem and sndcard up again after install of new kernel, but they are older isa cards). All that to say, I'm not sure, but I think the new kernel supports pnp pci cards better. -s On Tuesday 16 January 2001 02:39 pm, you wrote: Can anyone tell me how to get my sound blaster x-gamer running? I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed and have tried many online tutorials on how to get a SB live running and have had no luck. LM knows it's there but when I try hard drake it errors out. I would like to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.x before I get the sound blaster running. Is that a smart thing to do? Thanks for any help! --Matt
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer
Can anyone tell me how to get my sound blaster x-gamer running? I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed and have tried many online tutorials on how to get a SB live running and have had no luck. LM knows it's there but when I try hard drake it errors out. I would like to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.x before I get the sound blaster running. Is that a smart thing to do? I've got the original SB Live!, and my LM 7.2 worked out of the box. All SB Lives use the EMU401K chip (think that's the right identifier; I'm at work right now); what happens if you "insmod emu401k"? BTW ... yes, kernel 2.4 also includes support for this chip.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer
I didn't try sndconfig but I did try getting the drivers from Creative and compiling them and following a tutorial at linuxnewbie. Here's the link... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/soundcards/sblive.html I tried this and it didn't work... It has to be easier than what I'm attempting. Thanks for the reply! I'll try using sndconfig and see what happens. --Matt - Original Message - From: "s" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 3:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer I have a pci Sound Blaster Live and /usr/sbin/sndconfig did mine! Sounds great too with my Altec Lansing speakers. It sounds as good as it does under windows with Creatives' bloated drivers and software. It won't work for you? When I switched to 2.4.0, it set it up and my pci modem automatically. (I mean I had a configuration from previous kernel, but with this other machine, I had to set the modem and sndcard up again after install of new kernel, but they are older isa cards). All that to say, I'm not sure, but I think the new kernel supports pnp pci cards better.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer
I have a pci Sound Blaster Live and /usr/sbin/sndconfig did mine! Sounds great too with my Altec Lansing speakers. It sounds as good as it does under windows with Creatives' bloated drivers and software. Well no, the Linux version does not really sound as good (IMO). Mostly because I can find no way (or no Linux software) to activate the 2nd set of speakers that I have. Under Windows, I have sound from all 4, as well as control over the sound placement; under Linux, I only get sound the front 2, and I have no control over the sound placement. Nor do I have control over all the effects (reverb, delay, etc) that I have under Windows. Nor does it come with the profusion of presets (jazz hall, optimized for certain games, etc). Which is not to say that the sound from the front 2 speakers is bad, or wrong, or anything; it's just that I have nowhere near the amount of control over my sound system under Linux, as I do under Windows.
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live...Problem
I'm trying to get sound blaster live card to work, but everytime I do a sndconfig, the card registers and Modprobe tell me there is a problem. Here is the message: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/emu10k.o:init-module :Device or resource busy /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/emu10k.o:init-module :insmod same line again : failed same line again :insmod sound-slot-0 failed I have no Idea what this means. all I know is there is no sound what should I do...Help gavin
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live
I have been trying to install SB Live for some time now and can't seem to get it to work. I have followed the instructions provided with the emu10k1 drivers and have also used the instructions at linuxnewbie.org. After installing the drivers and probing I get an "error stating that the reference in the /misc/ folder is more recent than the file in the modules folder. (or vice versa). I also get an error saying that there is "no such device" for /dev/dsp0. When I was trying out mandrake, everything worked out and now, After buying the deluxe pack and installing everything, it won't.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
Hi Jim, If Paul's suggestion doesn't work, you may have to go thru this list of things - I did, to get the sound functioning 100% in 7.1. I had CD sound but no WAVs - also, had those odd permission problems. Anyway, here's the laundry list: 1. Upgrade to latest kernel 2. recompile emu10k1 driver under latest kernel 3. download latest alsa library from Mandrake update - does not get updated automatically with the Update function 3. download and install latest detect library, HardDrake and sounddrake from the HardDrake site - latest sounddrake has dependancies of detect, alsa and HardDrake, so sounddrake is the last to be installed - I used the RPMs. 4. Now run sounddrake again - you may have to find it in the /sbin directory and run it directly - there was (is ?) a small configuration bug in HardDrake that it does not look in the correct place for the sounddrake file. There is a HardDrake .rc file that needs to be updated manually, until a fix comes out for that. I am pretty sure after all this the sound worked and the device permissions problems went away - I tried so many things - I hope I don't have to re-install or anything ! cheers, philomena At 06:50 AM 7/7/00 +0200, you wrote: On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jim Dwyer wrote: I'm having a lot of trouble getting my sound card to work in 7.1 I got the new drivers from Creative OpenSource and compiled and installed but still can't get the darn thing to work. When i go to configure it in HardDrake it plays sound when i run the test but when i click OK to configure it says cannot find file "/dev/dsp" What's up with this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hi Jim, I had the same problem once, and I could fix it through chmod a+rw /dev/dsp Perhaps this helps you too. Paul -- You need legs if you don't have courage )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jim Dwyer wrote: I'm having a lot of trouble getting my sound card to work in 7.1 I got the new drivers from Creative OpenSource and compiled and installed but still can't get the darn thing to work. When i go to configure it in HardDrake it plays sound when i run the test but when i click OK to configure it says cannot find file "/dev/dsp" What's up with this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hi Jim, I had the same problem once, and I could fix it through chmod a+rw /dev/dsp Perhaps this helps you too. Paul -- You need legs if you don't have courage )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live
Does anyone know of a way to get the Sound Blaster Live card working under the most current distro. of Mandrake? Thanks, Vince
[newbie] sound blaster live problems
I have recently installed linux 6.5 and am having problems with the sound card. I get a message that says card not supported but linux recognizes it as a sound blaster live card. Is this a driver issue or a configuration issue? Any solutions would be appreciated. BW __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live
Does anyone know how to setup Creative's Sound Blaster Live in Mandrake 6.0? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
Have you downloaded Creative's drivers for it? If not, you might want to do so...it's on their "developer" site (sorry can't give the exact URL.) john - Original Message - From: sinx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:25 PM Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live Does anyone know how to setup Creative's Sound Blaster Live in Mandrake 6.0? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
www.creativelabs.com John Aldrich wrote: Have you downloaded Creative's drivers for it? If not, you might want to do so...it's on their "developer" site (sorry can't give the exact URL.) john - Original Message - From: sinx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:25 PM Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live Does anyone know how to setup Creative's Sound Blaster Live in Mandrake 6.0? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
At 07:25 PM 8/12/99 -0500, sinx wrote: Does anyone know how to setup Creative's Sound Blaster Live in Mandrake 6.0? Thanks. Which begs the question: how does somebody access the archives for this mailing list? This topic was covered in great depth less than a week ago. --- Ian W. Douglas, Wild Web Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 506679
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live
Well, I just got those drivers, and I ran the install, and it says I have to have kernel 2.2.5 - 15 I have kernel 2.9, any idea what it gives me the error? Toby Sheets wrote: www.creativelabs.com John Aldrich wrote: Have you downloaded Creative's drivers for it? If not, you might want to do so...it's on their "developer" site (sorry can't give the exact URL.) john - Original Message - From: sinx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:25 PM Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live Does anyone know how to setup Creative's Sound Blaster Live in Mandrake 6.0? Thanks.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
At 07:58 AM 8/9/99 +0200, Patrick Putteman wrote: to get past the 'device busy', unload the soundcore module (rmmod soundcore) and then manually reload the two modules. If you're talking about sblive, that would be : modprobe soundcore insmod -f emu10k1 If you're ever in the Ottawa, Canada area, I owe you dinner ... this worked like a charm. :o) --- Ian W. Douglas, Wild Web Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 506679
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
- Original Message - From: Jayce Steadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Martin White wrote: Sorry for the vague answers, but i've only ever come across the scenario where it either works or it doesn't (!) - never that it part works. Perhaps someone else can offer some better suggestions ?? I have now received the ability to play sound but it will just loop constantly, and there is no viable way to stop it. For instance, if I test any of the sounds in system sounds (K/Settings/Sound/System sounds) instead of the short 1 -3 second sound, the sound will play and it will just loop and loop, and even if I try to play another sound, it will not stop looping. I seem to remember that CTRL-ALT'f1, then type 'init 1' MAY get you out of the loop - like i say i can't really remember. I am now wondering if it is not a soundcard related problem but a mobo problem (I have a Via chipset, Super Socket 7, 6 PCI, 0 ISA, TMC TI5VGF). Doubt it, my m/board was a Chaintech 6BTM Slot 1 and it did it to me too. Does anyone know how I can mess around with DMA and IRQ's without using soundconfig, as the card is not listed there. Sorry, don't really know a sensible way to get around this, i too had the problem, which seemed to just 'appear' after i upgraded my kernel. I did a complete wipe of my root partition and re-install, then stayed WELL CLEAR of all the updates (apart from the init-scripts update - got fed up with hard disk checks on bootup !). It's all been perfect ever since. Incidentally, i had this problem with the old version of the module that was still called 'sblive.o', so iguess it's nothing specifically to do with the module side of things. Thanks for all of your help, but it seems that my SBLive is destined for the bin! Don't do it !! - Hopefully someone else can offer a more sensible solution, but if all else fails, the re-install worked for me. Martin.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
Just for information. I have had exactly the same problem since upgrading from 2.2.9-19mkd to 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. Worked OK following Martin White's instructions before the kernel update. Tony F - Original Message - From: Jayce Steadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Martin White wrote: Sorry for the vague answers, but i've only ever come across the scenario where it either works or it doesn't (!) - never that it part works. Perhaps someone else can offer some better suggestions ?? I have now received the ability to play sound but it will just loop constantly, and there is no viable way to stop it. For instance, if I test any of the sounds in system sounds (K/Settings/Sound/System sounds) instead of the short 1 -3 second sound, the sound will play and it will just loop and loop, and even if I try to play another sound, it will not stop looping. I seem to remember that CTRL-ALT'f1, then type 'init 1' MAY get you out of the loop - like i say i can't really remember. I am now wondering if it is not a soundcard related problem but a mobo problem (I have a Via chipset, Super Socket 7, 6 PCI, 0 ISA, TMC TI5VGF). Doubt it, my m/board was a Chaintech 6BTM Slot 1 and it did it to me too. Does anyone know how I can mess around with DMA and IRQ's without using soundconfig, as the card is not listed there. Sorry, don't really know a sensible way to get around this, i too had the problem, which seemed to just 'appear' after i upgraded my kernel. I did a complete wipe of my root partition and re-install, then stayed WELL CLEAR of all the updates (apart from the init-scripts update - got fed up with hard disk checks on bootup !). It's all been perfect ever since. Incidentally, i had this problem with the old version of the module that was still called 'sblive.o', so iguess it's nothing specifically to do with the module side of things. Thanks for all of your help, but it seems that my SBLive is destined for the bin! Don't do it !! - Hopefully someone else can offer a more sensible solution, but if all else fails, the re-install worked for me. Martin.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
- Original Message - From: A.M. (Tony) Finnis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Just for information. I have had exactly the same problem since upgrading from 2.2.9-19mkd to 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. Worked OK following Martin White's instructions before the kernel update. Tony F [SNIP] This was my first lesson in 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. I didn't actually have a problem with the 2.2.9-19 kernel, i just thought it would be nice to have the latest version, so i updated, then i kcked myself. Since then i decided not to bother upgrading until i found it would give me something i needed and couldn't do with what i had - i still haven't had to upgrade yet !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
"A.M. (Tony) Finnis" wrote: Just for information. I have had exactly the same problem since upgrading from 2.2.9-19mkd to 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. Worked OK following Martin White's instructions before the kernel update. Tony F The solution was in Martin's last posting. The modules do not seem to like kernel 2.2.9-19mdk at all, and so I went into etc/lilo config and changed the boot kernel to 2.2.9-19mkd, and then I ran /Sbin/lilo and hay presto! The sound works! Thanks chaps, You lot have saved my SBLive from the hands of the binmen, for which he thanks you gracefully :-) -- --Powered by Linux Mandrake-- Jayce Steadman ICQ:- 40694192
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
Gald to hear some positive feedback !! Martin. - Original Message - From: Jayce Steadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! "A.M. (Tony) Finnis" wrote: Just for information. I have had exactly the same problem since upgrading from 2.2.9-19mkd to 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. Worked OK following Martin White's instructions before the kernel update. Tony F The solution was in Martin's last posting. The modules do not seem to like kernel 2.2.9-19mdk at all, and so I went into etc/lilo config and changed the boot kernel to 2.2.9-19mkd, and then I ran /Sbin/lilo and hay presto! The sound works! Thanks chaps, You lot have saved my SBLive from the hands of the binmen, for which he thanks you gracefully :-) -- --Powered by Linux Mandrake-- Jayce Steadman ICQ:- 40694192
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
The Sound Blaster Live works very well with Mandrake 6 and Cooker. All you have to do is download the latest modules from creative FTP, follow the manual install procedure.For kernel 2.2.9 you best use the 2.2.5 module. To load the module type insmod -f emu10k1 if you get a device busy error, type rmmod soundcore then insmod soundcore insmod -f emu10k1 The kernel mismatch error you get is just a warning and can safely be ignored Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net 7 www.net7.be - Original Message - From: alann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Jayce Steadman wrote: Hello chaps, anyone been successful in getting the Live working in Mandrake 6.0? I have tried downloading numerous files, but I keep on running into kernel mismaches. Can anyone help? -- --Powered by Linux Mandrake-- Jayce Steadman Icq:- 40694192 I think the mandrake people need to do some work on thier soundcard stuff. I've got a SB PCI128 that "partly" works. It worked fine under Mandrake 5.3. Something changed somewhere. -- === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
Martin White wrote: Any further problems either check out the archives, or let the list know !! Martin. I have followed your instructions and I am happy to say that I can no listen to audio CD's no probs. However, I can't get any system sounds (wav's etc). The problem is that I cannot find the Sound Blaster Live in Sndconfig, and to be honest I don't know if I need to use sndconfig, and if I do, how to use it :-) Any help would be appreciated, Quake refuses to run without sound :-) -- --Powered by Linux Mandrake-- Jayce Steadman ICQ:- 40694192
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
Ian Douglas wrote: which of the three modules from Creative's tar file to use. K, I'll bite: where would one find this tar file from Creative Labs? http://developer.soundblaster.com/ You will find the driver here, getting it to work is another matter though :-) -- --Powered by Linux Mandrake-- Jayce Steadman ICQ:- 40694192
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
On Sat, 07 Aug 1999, Martin wrote: Once you've copied the module into your '/lib/modules/2.2.x.-xxmdk/misc' directory as 'emu10k1.o', check out www.whitem.demon.co.uk/my_conf_modules.htm . The last four lines should be what you will need to insert into your '/etc/conf.modules' to pull it all together at boot time. Hi all. Did this, still doesn't work. No sound at all. Since I'm just running the stock 2.2.9-19mdk kernel that shipped with v6.0, I used Creative's EMU10k1 v2.2.5-15 module which appeared to load okay on boot-up but hey ... still pretty quiet in here. ;-) I'd appreciate any other help. Willing to take the topic off-list and go private if someone can walk me through this. Ian
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
Alanthere's an icon on your desktop (a gold star magic wand) namedupdates. Click it. It'll tell you what updates you haven't installed andallow you to FTP them and will auto-install what you've chosen to FTP.Specifically, from my failing memory, I believe that the sound-relatedpackages were sndconfig, sox, sox-devel, audiofile, audiofile-devel, esoundand esound-devel, but this may not be totally accurate.Alan-Original Message-From: alann [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Sunday, August 08, 1999 3:47 PMSubject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!Alan Shoemaker wrote: Alanhave you downloaded and installed the updates? My sb pci128 wouldn't install (sndconfig errored out) till I installed the updates. After that, It installed just fine. Alan (this could get confusing)Hmm, I've dloaded some things.Exaclty what updated did you dload and install?( what and where )ThanksAlan===[EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
to get past the 'device busy', unload the soundcore module (rmmod soundcore) and then manually reload the two modules. If you're talking about sblive, that would be : modprobe soundcore insmod -f emu10k1 sound should work ok. Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net 7 www.net7.be - Original Message - From: Ian Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! I bought an SB Live about an hour ago And as a followup, I also get the "device busy" on startup. Recompiled my kernel (2.2.9-19mdk) to make sure sound supportw as installed and told it to include modules for every possible sound card. Running sndconfig doesn't seem to find anything at all. I manually select the "Ensoniq AudioPCI 1370 (SoundBlaster 64/128 PCI)" selection and it added this line to /etc/conf.modules: alias sound es1370 When it tries to play the sample (and also on bootup) I get this error: /lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/misc/es1370.o: init_module: Device or resource busy I'm *this* close to losing Windows 95/98/NT forever ... if I can only get this sound card working. I downloaded the four updates from the linux-mandrake.com site and installed all four, recompiled the kernel again, rebuilt the modules and rebooted and still nothing. Thanks for any advice. --- Ian Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
Hello chaps, anyone been successful in getting the Live working in Mandrake 6.0? I have tried downloading numerous files, but I keep on running into kernel mismaches. Can anyone help? -- --Powered by Linux Mandrake-- Jayce Steadman Icq:- 40694192
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
Jayce Steadman wrote: Hello chaps, anyone been successful in getting the Live working in Mandrake 6.0? I have tried downloading numerous files, but I keep on running into kernel mismaches. Can anyone help? -- --Powered by Linux Mandrake-- Jayce Steadman Icq:- 40694192 I think the mandrake people need to do some work on thier soundcard stuff. I've got a SB PCI128 that "partly" works. It worked fine under Mandrake 5.3. Something changed somewhere. -- === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
This has been covered a few times lately, and yep, it's no problem. You don't specifiy which kernel you have, so i can't tell you which of the three modules from Creative's tar file to use. If you have the standard 2.2.9-19mdk that comes with 6.0, use the 2.2.5 module. If you have a 2.0.xx kernel, use the 2.0.36 module, any kernel 2.2.10 or higher, try the 2.2.10 module. Once you've copied the module into your '/lib/modules/2.2.x.-xxmdk/misc' directory as 'emu10k1.o', check out www.whitem.demon.co.uk/my_conf_modules.htm . The last four lines should be what you will need to insert into your '/etc/conf.modules' to pull it all together at boot time. Any further problems either check out the archives, or let the list know !! Martin. - Original Message - From: Jayce Steadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 11:27 PM Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Hello chaps, anyone been successful in getting the Live working in Mandrake 6.0? I have tried downloading numerous files, but I keep on running into kernel mismaches. Can anyone help? -- --Powered by Linux Mandrake-- Jayce Steadman Icq:- 40694192
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, alann wrote: I think the mandrake people need to do some work on thier soundcard stuff. I've got a SB PCI128 that "partly" works. What's the problem with it? LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, alann wrote: I think the mandrake people need to do some work on thier soundcard stuff. I've got a SB PCI128 that "partly" works. What's the problem with it? I've posted this for the last few days, but again, I have no CD sound and no sound off realplayer. ( yea, cables are good ).. I can play .wav's and my gnome/enlightenment has sound. If I play a CD it's silent. All mix controls are up. Sndconfig fails. with all options, --noautoconfig --noprobe. Nothing works to fix it. The same hardware worked perfect in Mandrake 5.3. The install was a new "wiped drive " install for 6.0. Alan -- === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, alann wrote: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, alann wrote: I think the mandrake people need to do some work on thier soundcard stuff. I've got a SB PCI128 that "partly" works. What's the problem with it? I've posted this for the last few days, but again, I have no CD sound and no sound off realplayer. ( yea, cables are good ).. I can play .wav's and my gnome/enlightenment has sound. If I play a CD it's silent. All mix controls are up. Sndconfig fails. with all options, --noautoconfig --noprobe. Nothing works to fix it. The same hardware worked perfect in Mandrake 5.3. The install was a new "wiped drive " install for 6.0. Alan can we see /proc/sound, /proc/pci and /etc/conf.modules plz
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
- Original Message - From: Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 10:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, alann wrote: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, alann wrote: I think the mandrake people need to do some work on thier soundcard stuff. I've got a SB PCI128 that "partly" works. What's the problem with it? I've posted this for the last few days, but again, I have no CD sound and no sound off realplayer. ( yea, cables are good ).. I can play .wav's and my gnome/enlightenment has sound. If I play a CD it's silent. All mix controls are up. Sndconfig fails. with all options, --noautoconfig --noprobe. Nothing works to fix it. The same hardware worked perfect in Mandrake 5.3. The install was a new "wiped drive " install for 6.0. Alan can we see /proc/sound, /proc/pci and /etc/conf.modules plz Sure. /proc/sound does not exist. /proc/pci exists but is empty. /etc/conf.modules alias eth0 tulip alias paraport_lowlevel - paraport_pc alias sound es 1370 Alan
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
Alanhave you downloaded and installed the updates? My sb pci128 wouldn't install (sndconfig errored out) till I installed the updates. After that, It installed just fine. Alan (this could get confusing) -Original Message- From: alann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, August 07, 1999 7:27 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, alann wrote: I think the mandrake people need to do some work on thier soundcard stuff. I've got a SB PCI128 that "partly" works. What's the problem with it? I've posted this for the last few days, but again, I have no CD sound and no sound off realplayer. ( yea, cables are good ).. I can play .wav's and my gnome/enlightenment has sound. If I play a CD it's silent. All mix controls are up. Sndconfig fails. with all options, --noautoconfig --noprobe. Nothing works to fix it. The same hardware worked perfect in Mandrake 5.3. The install was a new "wiped drive " install for 6.0. Alan -- === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live!
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Alan N. wrote: - Original Message - From: Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 10:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, alann wrote: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, alann wrote: I think the mandrake people need to do some work on thier soundcard stuff. I've got a SB PCI128 that "partly" works. What's the problem with it? I've posted this for the last few days, but again, I have no CD sound and no sound off realplayer. ( yea, cables are good ).. I can play .wav's and my gnome/enlightenment has sound. If I play a CD it's silent. All mix controls are up. Sndconfig fails. with all options, --noautoconfig --noprobe. Nothing works to fix it. The same hardware worked perfect in Mandrake 5.3. The install was a new "wiped drive " install for 6.0. Alan can we see /proc/sound, /proc/pci and /etc/conf.modules plz Sure. /proc/sound does not exist. This will exist and contain atleast the oss and kernel version if you can play .wav files. /proc/pci exists but is empty. it should be 0bytes however if you cat /proc/pci you should be getting some information wether it's relative to the soundcard or not something should be there, maybe a bios update is in order. /etc/conf.modules alias eth0 tulip alias paraport_lowlevel - paraport_pc alias sound es 1370 typo? "alias sound es1370" Alan
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?
- Original Message - Martin White wrote: Has anybody tried setting up a Sound Blaster Live PCI card under Mandrake - if so what did you set it up as ?? [SNIP] There was some news about a Linux driver for SBLive. Creative hired a linux hacker to do it but so far no working driver yet. Not even beta. So I guess we'll have to wait. I'm in the same boat in this regard. [SNIP] This is not good news - although the fact that someone seems to know what is going on is sort of good news !! Where would i look to try and keep up to date with progress on this one ?. I'm not really using Linux much at the moment (i tend to go backwards and forwards between Win98 and Mandrake), but i don't want to rule out going back to it when my mood takes me just because of no support for my sound card. However, if you have the other SB cards (The PCI, Ensoniq chip, AWE32/64, 16 etc) they should all work with no problems. The only part that seems to have problems is MIDI. Regards, I certainly do. Until i sell on my PC and finish building my new one i have an old Awe64 which was working happily for my purposes (and to be honest i thought it sounded better in Linux than Win98 ?!?). Is there likely to be any issues with having both running in the PC at the same time, or should i just forget about sound for the moment - i only really use it to listen to CD's under Linux. Win98's a different matter tho. [SNIP] Regard, Martin.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?
Where would i look to try and keep up to date with progress on this one ?. Here are some of the best places to visit to keep up to date with Linux developments in general: http://slashdot.org/ # this one is exceptionally geeky - highly recommended http://lwn.net/ # this is for the weeks' news. Good overall linux ezine. http://www.linuxworld.com/ # this one is more "mainstream" but worth a read. Lookup the previous articles. I'm not really using Linux much at the moment (i tend to go backwards and forwards between Win98 and Mandrake), but i don't want to rule out going back to it when my mood takes me just because of no support for my sound card. I did that for about...2 days. Now I'm 100% Linux powered :-) I certainly do. Until i sell on my PC and finish building my new one i have an old Awe64 which was working happily for my purposes (and to be honest i thought it sounded better in Linux than Win98 ?!?). Then, use the AWE64. Works really well in both Linux and win98. Is there likely to be any issues with having both running in the PC at the same time, or should i just forget about sound for the moment - i only really use it to listen to CD's under Linux. Win98's a different matter tho. It really depends on what you want to do. For me, I don't really miss sound so much in Linux so I haven't bothered re-installing my AWE64 and taking out the SBLive! card (for the time being). If you're not too bothered about no sound in Linux, leave it as it is. The driver will appear...eventually. -- -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster -- Discussions heartily welcomed; Flames generally ignored. --
RE: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?
There is information on the Linux drivers for SBLive! here: http://alsa.jcu.cz/black.html http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=linux-ggim=91750053603759w=2 As per that, Creative is not publically releasing programming data for this sound card, but is working on binary drivers. Regards, Richard
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?
Birchall, Richard wrote: There is information on the Linux drivers for SBLive! here: http://alsa.jcu.cz/black.html http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=linux-ggim=91750053603759w=2 As per that, Creative is not publically releasing programming data for this sound card, but is working on binary drivers. Regards, Richard Thanks for the links Richard. I knew of the ALSA project but I've not been there since...last year. The second one I read off a link from...slashdot? The news from the first link is pretty depressing...don't the fools realize that if they open up, more people will buy their hardware?! Idiots. -- -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster -- Discussions heartily welcomed; Flames generally ignored. --
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?
Has anybody tried setting up a Sound Blaster Live PCI card under Mandrake - if so what did you set it up as ?? I stupdily forgot all about my Linux setup and was just thinking about HalfLife when i bought it !! Martin.
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?
Martin White wrote: Has anybody tried setting up a Sound Blaster Live PCI card under Mandrake - if so what did you set it up as ?? I stupdily forgot all about my Linux setup and was just thinking about HalfLife when i bought it !! Martin. There was some news about a Linux driver for SBLive. Creative hired a linux hacker to do it but so far no working driver yet. Not even beta. So I guess we'll have to wait. I'm in the same boat in this regard. However, if you have the other SB cards (The PCI, Ensoniq chip, AWE32/64, 16 etc) they should all work with no problems. The only part that seems to have problems is MIDI. Regards, -- -- Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster -- Discussions heartily welcomed; Flames generally ignored. --
