[NTLUG:Discuss] sblive!

[Kevin Brannen]

Randall Gibson wrote:
> 
> Heres wher I got directions on installing my SbLive. http://www4.ncsu.edu/~distclai/sblive-howto.html
> I dont know if SuSE is a derivative of RedHat, but I had a VERY difficult time getting it to boot my self-built kernel and never got it to load my modules. I stick with Debian now.

It is a derivative of RH, but that seems to be long enough ago that the
configuration stuff is quite different now.

But on to the real news...  That link points to source for a driver, which is
a good thing, as I believe most of my problems in the past had to do with
kernel differences (between what the .o driver was compiled against versus
what I was running).  So given that, I've compiled it, installed it, and am
having some success! :-)  I now have a /dev/dsp and /dev/audio.  /dev/sndstat
is non-functional, but I can live with that.  The Gnome mixer now works. :-) 
And I can play mp3's with mp3blaster. (big :-)  So 1 goal accomplished.

Goal 2 was to do midi, but the driver doesn't support that yet, so no need to
try. :-(

Goal 3 was to have xmcd play via the sound card.  It is totally silent.  After
much digging, I find that it uses OSS.  So I've started pulling that off of
the CD.  I'll see where that gets me.

Also, I've found that "cat /dos_c/windows/media/chimes.wav > /dev/dsp"
produces sound, but sounds really horrendous!  You can kinda make it out, but
it's almost unrecognizeable, and very scratchy.  Doing .au files to /dev/audio
has the same problem.  Has anyone seen this one???

Kevin

> 
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 01:31:00 Kevin Brannen wrote:
> > 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.