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Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Value
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Date of last review
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17
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12-26-2006
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100% of reviewers
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$54.96
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9.4
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Description:
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This card is at least 4 years old. I kind of lost track. In any case, it's an early revision. I only use the two front speakers.
This card works well with the latest ALSA drivers in Slackware-current (as of 11/2003). Earlier versions of ALSA didn't work, but the card did work with older drivers.
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Keywords:
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Sound Blaster Live! Live Value
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/sbin/lspci output:
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00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 04)
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Chipset:
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emu10k1
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11-12-2003, 06:26 PM
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#1
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Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: Gnetoo
Posts: 0
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $20.00 | Rating: 8
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.20-gentoo-r8
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Gentoo
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I've been using OSS, and the Live! Value works wonderfully. Apparently the MIDI (/dev/sequencer) is kind of a hack, but I honestly haven't ever touched it.
Support is in the vanilla kernel back to the 2.2.x series. The rear speakers just mirror the front speakers.
It's a great, simple, nothing-to-configure sound card.
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11-16-2003, 07:23 AM
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#2
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Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 1
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.0-test8
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Gentoo 1.4
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I'm using alsa :D
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12-28-2003, 04:58 AM
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#3
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Registered: Dec 2003
Posts: 0
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $15.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
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Distribution:
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Fedora Core 1
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Nothing to complain.
It worked just fine with Red Hat 8/9, Fedora Core 1, Knoppix, Libranet, Debian, Mepis, Damn Small Linux....
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01-15-2004, 11:34 PM
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#4
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Registered: Nov 2003
Posts: 53
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.1
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Distribution:
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Debian SID
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Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 06)
Alsa 1.0.1
. Runs great
. Installed as module
Asus P4T533-C MB.
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01-20-2004, 04:59 PM
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#5
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Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: Debian 4.0 and 3.1; Kubuntu 7.04
Posts: 135
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.24
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Distribution:
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Debian
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Makes sound, so does what it should :-)
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02-19-2004, 09:47 PM
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#6
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Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: Suse-9, x64, Lycoris
Posts: 13
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.2
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Distribution:
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RedHat 7.1
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while I have never asked much of my sound cards this one has worked through many test installs and many versions/distros. 7.1 was my baseline, I'm running RH9 now.
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02-20-2004, 05:14 PM
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#7
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Registered: Aug 2001
Distribution: What's the difference? It's Linux.
Posts: 497
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.24
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Distribution:
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Slackware 9.1/current
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Works great for me. Not using ALSA, I'm using the emu10k1 module that comes with the kernel. No need for any audio subsystem likes ARTSD or anything as this is a full duplex card.
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03-27-2004, 01:11 AM
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#8
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Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: SuSE10
Posts: 164
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.x
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Distribution:
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Slackware ,Red Hat,Debian, Mandrake
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Smooth and easy, but in some distro like Slackware 9.1
the module isn't loaded automatically, so you need to
load the module or recompile the kernel.
you can find the drivers in almost every distro
cool
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04-18-2004, 08:37 PM
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#9
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Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 8
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $40.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.5
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Distribution:
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Slackware 9.1/Current
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Atrsd in KDE 3.2 buggy?
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08-19-2004, 04:57 AM
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#10
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Registered: Aug 2004
Distribution: Libranet 2.8.1
Posts: 1
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.26
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Distribution:
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Libranet 2.8.1
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I've had this card since 1998 with many distro's and it always work and still works great. Nothing to wine about it just works.
Usign EMU10K1 module from kernel and full duplex. Easy setup.
Wish I could say that for other hardware I had.
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09-22-2004, 07:59 PM
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#11
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Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: Slackware 11
Posts: 174
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $16.49 | Rating: 8
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.6
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Distribution:
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slackware-current
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I use kernels compiled by myself. I only compile Sound Support into kernel (not OSS or ALSA in kernel compile). I download and follow instructions for compiling support for this card using www.alsa-project.org.
This card performs well. It has good pricing point (I bought on ebay, my stated price included shipping).
For the price, it gives good sound and performs well. No problems.
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10-17-2004, 06:08 PM
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#12
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Registered: Oct 2004
Distribution: Mandrake 10.1, Ubuntu 5.04
Posts: 65
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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Kernel 2.6.3
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Distribution:
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Mandrake 10.0, Suse 9.1 Pro
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never had problems with any linux distros...
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03-24-2005, 04:27 PM
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#13
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Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: SUSE, ArchLinux, Gentoo, LFS, Slackware, Fedora
Posts: 100
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 8
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I've run this card under several different kernels and distros and never had a problem.
I've had it compiled into the kernel itself and loaded as a modules. Works for ALSA and OSS. Good sound card for a low price.
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09-30-2005, 07:31 AM
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#14
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Registered: Sep 2005
Distribution: Gentoo, Debian
Posts: 2
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $183.29 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.12-gentoo-r9
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Distribution:
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Gentoo
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Price may not be entirely correct, I'm from norway and rates constantly change. Anyway.
The product works perfectly 100% of the time for me. Although I haven't tried anything supporting 3D sound, all four speakers get sound. (I use two of them for the computer and two for the TV, so yeah... I'm kind of glad it doesn't work as intended. ;))
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06-07-2006, 09:52 PM
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#15
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Registered: Jun 2006
Distribution: PCLinuxOS kernel 2.6.12
Posts: 14
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.12
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Distribution:
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PCLinuxOS
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Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
Worked at first boot!
Except to turn the master volume in alsamixer down; no config needed :)
When I play DVD's my dog actually thinks there's an intruder in the house.
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09-15-2006, 02:33 AM
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#16
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Registered: Aug 2006
Distribution: Pardus & sidux
Posts: 76
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.9-42.0.2.EL / 2.6.15(?)
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Distribution:
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CentOS 4 / Kubuntu 6.06
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!! This is about the DELL OEM version of the card !!
lspci: Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Value EMU10k1X
Alsa soundcard matrix: Sound Blaster PCI X (Dell OEM) SB0200 Details (emu10k1x)
Worked on boot with Kubuntu, needed to compile the Alsa driver with CentOS. Rating 10 because I haven't got full options working but that seems more distro specific than a fault with the hardware. Note the X in the driver, it won't work with emu10k1.
Good card, no hassles, should be really cheap now.
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12-26-2006, 01:01 PM
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#17
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Registered: Apr 2005
Distribution: Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn"
Posts: 49
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 0
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.15-27-386
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Distribution:
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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
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Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 06)
Excellent soundcard, with excellent support for linux. Has worked for me straight away with each distribution of linux I've tried (Mandrake 10.1, Ubuntu 5.04, Ubuntu 5.10, Ubuntu, 6.06, Ubuntu 6.10, Knoppix 5.0), and has excellent features; bass/treble control, hardware mixing of sound (especially useful for linux, since software mixing of sound isn't quite as good as it could be), hardware MIDI synthesis, and a 3D sound effect.
I'd recommend this card.
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