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Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!
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Description: I run this under the non-standard kernel module, from http://opensource.creative.com/

Full 4 speakers work, haven't tried digital out. The module name is emu10k1.o and there's a companion set of tools from the creative site to switch from analog to digital, etc...
Keywords: sblive audigy emu10k1
/sbin/lspci output: 00:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
Chipset: emu10k1
Connection Type: PCI


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Old 12-01-2004, 03:54 AM   #1
tarod
 
Registered: Nov 2004
Distribution: Mandriva LE 2005
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8.1-10mdk
Distribution: Mandrake 10.1 Community



flaws with snd-emu10k1, works perfect with emu10k1
 
Old 12-07-2004, 02:30 PM   #2
Doolspin
 
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http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labs&card=Sound+Blaster+Live+Value.&chip=emu10k1&module=emu10k1

Alsa 1.0.7 found it right way, great card.
 
Old 12-27-2004, 05:16 AM   #3
henriquemaia
 
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To get the microphone to work properly (i.e. recording), I had to run alsaconf as root.
 
Old 02-09-2005, 04:12 AM   #4
Wartz
 
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Old 02-10-2005, 07:28 AM   #5
HalfDiminished
 
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.10
Distribution: Debian Sarge


Some issues with 2.4 kernels. I highly recommend updating to the latest 2.6.10 kernel, compiling all soundcard drivers as modules (in kernel config). Make sure you have emu10k1, emu10k1-gp, gameport.
 
Old 03-14-2005, 09:39 AM   #6
Blackhawkckc
 
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Old 03-20-2005, 11:46 AM   #7
owen5
 
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Autodetected well, could use Audacity and Kaffeine on first install

Only difficulty I had is getting the exact settings in the mixer to allow for good quality input/output. I had to use the commandline version of alsamixer to access all of the correct options, the gnome-alsamixer hid some of them.
 
Old 04-21-2005, 04:35 AM   #8
proglottis
 
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11.6
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Old 05-15-2005, 12:04 PM   #9
phantompgr
 
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11-1.14_FC3
Distribution: Fedora Core 3


Was originally running FC2 when I bought it and the sound has never been an issue. I did though have trouble with the volume control on the gnome desktop.

The card would be found but no sound would come from the Fedora Test?
That would be due to the volume control be turned down by default!

The volume control has a multitude of different sliders. Significantly one thing I have learnt to be remembered ... experiment. The sliders that make some part of the sound happen are not always in the most obvious of places. For example, I recently bought a set of surround sound speakers and could not get the rear ones to increase in volume. Turns out I had to mute two of the volume control category sliders!

Sound card is great just the config was a bit of a fiddle. No complaints really!!
 
Old 06-07-2005, 05:42 AM   #10
Damatie
 
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Old 06-15-2005, 09:33 AM   #11
 
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Old 06-17-2005, 02:59 PM   #12
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To have full 5.1 sound system you have to turn on correct channels on the alsaconf.
 
Old 07-05-2005, 09:48 PM   #13
juanbobo
 
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11.7
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This is probably one of the better drivers for Linux, it is very reliable, but one major disappointment for me was that there is no hardware soundfont support because Creative hasn't released any relevant documentation.
 
Old 10-17-2005, 07:04 AM   #14
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.13-15
Distribution: SuSE -10GM


Suse detected the card perfectly and setup the mixer perfectly. Midi port and software are very functional. Have not tested the Joystick port as I have a usb joystick //drum
 
Old 11-04-2005, 04:56 PM   #15
Ygrex
 
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.14
Distribution: Debian (Sarge)


Never had any problems. Detects automatically. Updating linux from 2.6.13.4 up
to 2.6.14 produced some warnings when alsa init script runs. Something about
bad channels. Could be amended with easy executing 'alsactl store' for
rewriting asound.state file. It seems that module was modified and it is good!
If I loaded the linux-2.6.13, I would saw this messages again. But sound works
excellent anyway.

Resume: great emu10k1 compatibility!
 
Old 08-09-2006, 06:58 AM   #16
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initial conflict with my AC97 onboard card, which was easily resolved by turning that off in the bios. after that alsaconf found the card easily enough and loaded the emk10k1 module. bit of a tweak of volumes and levels in alsamixer, then alsactl store, and job's a goodn'. haven't tried all the fancy gizmos yet, but all seems well.
 
Old 04-24-2007, 06:36 AM   #17
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Kernel (uname -r): vanilla on Mdv.....2.6.15-27-desktop on Mepis
Distribution: Mandriva 2007 & Mepis 6.5


It works.

I do not play games so only the occassional audio cd and of course jokes.

I too have onboard ac97 sound on mobo but I disabled it.
 
Old 06-24-2009, 02:08 AM   #18
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Kernel (uname -r): FC11 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE
Distribution: Fedora 11


With reservations, a 10 rating for Fedora 11 and this card. The card has definite issues with the PulseAudio soundserver setup for stock Fedora 11.

To be able to use this card under Fedora 11, you either need to update the PulseAudio substructure via Fedora auto-updates, OR do the following:

1. Go to /etc/alsa
2. Rename the file pulse-default.conf to pulse-default.conf.bak
3. Become root and killall pulseaudio (put this in /etc/rc.local, since the system will restart pulseaudio each time it is booted)

FC11 also comes with OSS disabled by default, so some apps will have sound on the SBLive after doing the three steps above, however, apps that expect to have OSS available still won't work. Do this to get OSS back:

To fix, go into /etc/modprobe.d/dist-oss-conf and uncomment the bottommost line. Save the file, and reboot the system.

The SBLive and other creative cards should now run fine under Fedora 11.
 
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