[lug] How do you make sound work?

[D. Stimits]

Glenn Murray wrote:
> 
> AARGH.  I *have* a SoundBlaster card:
> 
> CT4780 SBLive! Value (Multimedia audo controller)

I have a SBLive Value as well. It works great. The big confusion usually
seems to be on two points. First, the emu10k1 driver itself has been a
moving target, most often the cvs version is better than the kernel
supplied version. See:
http://opensource.creative.com

A big note: You have to read the docs on separate emu10k1, usually other
configuration items are related before it will work right. The second
confusion is that often the mixer or routing patches are required to do
special things beyond basic 2-channel, especially if you have digital
speakers instead of analog. (I use analog, so I have no need to deal
with it)

There is a very good email list for emu10k1 list, most answers come
within minutes or hours of posting a question. Often it seems the
questions posted are related to confusion about changing syntax or
features of the mixer or dsp routing patches. Final note, if you compile
the separate cvs emu10k1, and not the kernel supplied version, you
*must* have your kernel source in place, and it *must* be configured to
match your running kernel at the time of compile. But SBLive Value does
work quite well, I can play an MP3 that sounds better than the local
home television sound system (this might not be saying much, the home
system isn't all that great, but the speakers on the computer are nice).

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> as reported by KDE.  I'm probably missing something obvious, but not
> so obvious that it doesn't work when I boot to Windoze.
> 
> Thanks,
> Glenn Murray
> http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray
> 
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Timothy C. Klein wrote:
> 
> > * Nate Duehr (nate at natetech.com) wrote:
> > > Haha.. cheat.
> > >
> > > Find a real SoundBlaster card on Ebay cheap and type...
> > >
> > > modprobe sb
> > >
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > Okay this might not be accurate, it was a LONG time ago I set up sound on
> > > Debian but with the right sound cards the standard OSS support in the kernel
> > > works a heck of a lot better than messing around with ALSA, IMHO.
> > >
> > > Actually I think in the Debian machine it has an Ensoniq AudioPCI or
> > > something equally as gross, but the kernel module loaded instantaneously and
> > > worked first time out!
> > >
> >
> > I second that.  I have never been able to get Alsa to work right in
> > Debian.  But the kernel module for my SB Live loads just fine, and works
> > without it.  You could try dowloading SndConfig (packaged in unstable,
> > don't remember if it is in stable).  It will monkey with the needed
> > module alias for you, after trying to auto-detect your card.
> >
> > Tim
> > --
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> > == Timothy Klein || teece at silverklein.net   ==
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