Creative SB Live

[The_Novastorm]

I have read throught the NHF for Live hardware, but am unable to 'make' the driver. Can someone make the driver and send me the binaries and relative paths/instructions to install on a Mandrake 8.2 Workstation? :confused:

[carlywarly]

I assume there is a reason why you have not used Harddrake to autodetect and set up your sound card. What is the problem?

[mdwatts]

You do not need to 'make the driver' as all the latest distro versions included SB Live support by default.

Look in /lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1 or thereabouts for emu10k1.o.

Try loading the module (as root) using

modprobe emu10k1

and if no errors, then

lsmod

to list the loaded modules.

If the module does not load, then try disabling PnP OS in the bios and then try loading the module again.

[The_Novastorm]

I will try it out, And will let you know my result!

[The_Novastorm]

Ok, I have sound in linux, but my system sounds awful because I have 5.1 speakers, and Linux is only playing on the left-front and right-front speakers - completely ignoring my subwoofer and back speakers.

Please help this is making my audio sound crummy! :(

[z0mbix]

Maybe this may help:

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=emu10k1&section=projects

[ntt.]

That sounds odd - I have the same card and when I was using the OSS emu10k1 driver it mirrorred the sound in the rear speakers (but not as loud). I have no idea why it isn't doing the same for you.

I've just recently switched to using ALSA (mainly to get the MIDI) working, but it really did make a lot of difference to the sound quality - I'm listening to it now and it sounds amazing. Gives you full control over the chip's 3d depth control and bass / treble controls and lets you manually set how it uses the rear speakers.

Be warned though - it wasn't all that easy to get ALSA working.

Edit: Used HTML instead of UBB code - d'oh!

[The_Novastorm]

Is there an FAQ available for advice on this subject as I too would like MIDI to work (as well as my 5.1 sound)

[ntt.]

Try here:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-howto/alsa-howto.html

or here:

http://www.alsa-project.org/~jfulmer/alsa-faq.html

Both links from google searches by the way - "ALSA howto" and "ALSA FAQ". I take no personal credit! ;)

[DFo3D]

Alsa absolutely ROCKS.

I LOVE watching DVD's in Linux now, the functionality of the API and the features you can wrench out of the SB Live is so much better in Alsa than anything out there.

Beats WinXP too.