[NTLUG:Discuss] sblive!

[Cameron]

* kbrannen at gte.net [2000.07.23 01:33]:
: The time has come for me to get my sound card working.  It's an SBLive! card. 
: Works beautifully under M$win98 (and NT when that was loaded).  But I can't
: seem to make it work under Linux, even with the instructions & driver that
: Creative (and SuSE) provide.  Has anyone else managed to make one of these
: work correctly?  If yes, would you _please_ share how you did it.
: 
: It's running a 2.2.14 kernel, SuSE 6.4 distro.
: 
: TIA,
: Kevin

if you feel a little adventurous, you could check out the ALSA sound
system.  it's available at http://www.alsa-project.org.  i've been using
them since v0.5.4 (about 5 months), and i've been pretty pleased (all i
really do is play MP3s with XMMS and maybe play a little Q3A every once
in a while).

PROS:
  ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) will eventually replace the
    current OSS sound architecture.
  It's "bleeding edge" and fun.  ;)
  Has a lot of advanced features that I'll probably never use.

CONS:
  OSS mixers don't work (like the volume control on XMMS).  BTW, there
    are a couple ALSA mixers in the alsa-utils distribution.

so, if you want to try something new (or you just can't get the OSS
drivers to work), check out the ALSA project.
--
cameron
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