[NTLUG:Discuss] sblive!

[Randall Gibson]

Actually it was 6.2 (Zoot?) that I had trouble with. They changed the "Default" mapping, so when I re-built a custom kernel, it wouldnt re-boot to it. pissed me off so much I formated RedHat. Your supposed to build kernel with OSS module, of if you can use default kernel, install the module off the CD. 

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:45:19 Kevin Brannen wrote:
> 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.
> 
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