RE: Re: Re: [PLUG] Creative SBLive! Value sound card

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 05:05:40PM -0400, billywissman@netscape.net wrote:
> section, I only compiled in "sound support" and "emu10k1" - I didn't
> select them as modules. After not being able to get sound. I started

It *shouldn't* matter whether you use them as modules or compiled in.

> With these changes I still have no sound?

That's odd.  With sound.o not being used by emu10k1.o, that suggests to
me that perhaps emu10k1.o isn't finding the sound card.

Send the output of "lspci -vvv" and the contents of /proc/pci,
/proc/interrupts, and /proc/devices.

A couple other questions... You mentioned (IIRC), that's you're using
Debian 2.2r6.  What version of the kernel are you running?  Has the
sound card worked before, either in a different installation of Linux or
a different OS?  Have you tried plugging the card itself into a
different PCI slot?

> I'm running enlightenment as my WM, and realized audio was disabled. I
> enabled audio and logged off/on. I received a message stating; not
> verbatum, "Could not connect to sound server". I checked which
> services were running on my system and esd is not. I have to read more
> and get esd started.  

If audio is disabled in your WM, you should still get sound if you dump
a file to /dev/dsp or wherever, use an MP3 player, etc.  What ESD does
is it mixes audio streams in software and then writes it to the sound
card.  This is for sound cards (either through hardware or Linux driver
limitations) that can't handle having /dev/dsp opened more than once.
Since your SB Live! can handle 32 voices *in hardware*, it's a little
unnecessary (but you may need to have it to get sounds from E itself).
Yes, you can do cool things like play several MP3s at the same time, but
there's also useful stuff too, like pausing XMMS and doing something
else that uses the sound card without having to hit "stop".

> Just curious? Do you have an ISA PnP or a PCI card. I have a PCI.  

I have a PCI card.  I'm not sure if the Live! series ever came in ISA.

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