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Creative Labs SB 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 11-16-2003, 08:08 AM   #1
Idlemaster
 
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $41.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.20
Distribution: SuSE 8.2



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Old 11-20-2003, 09:03 PM   #2
rwilson500
 
Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2
Posts: 9
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $40.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.2
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2


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Old 11-25-2003, 07:03 PM   #3
Yaa 101
 
Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: Mandrake
Posts: 3
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 4.2.22-21
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2


Sorry can't remember the price as I got it in 2000, it wasn't cheap but good as it prooves...

Definite flawless compatibility...
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Old 11-27-2003, 05:52 AM   #4
mwettach
 
Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: SuSE 8.2, SuSE 9.1 on desktop (besides W2K). SuSE 9.1 on notebook (besides XP).
Posts: 43
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 7

Kernel (uname -r): default
Distribution: SUSE 8.2


The soundcard is detected during install and SUSE installs the emu driver.

There are "system sounds" (when starting and closing the system) from the card (probably wave), but somehow the emu driver is not loaded or working completely. Not all sound applications can be started. I'll look further into that when it bothers me enough.
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Old 12-01-2003, 11:36 AM   #5
dingding66
 
Registered: Jan 2003
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2
Posts: 51
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $30.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.22-10mdk
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2


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Old 12-01-2003, 03:34 PM   #6
Phlit
 
Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2rc2
Posts: 3
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $22.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.22-6
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2rc2


I have never had any problems with this card since I got it 4years ago. It has ran on RH8, RH9, Mdk9.1, and now Mdk9.2rc2. I even had an SB Audigy card in the same computer as this card and both worked nicely, you just had to pick which one you wanted to use. I gave up the audigy card to my little brother though so it is just back to the trusty SB Live.
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Old 12-11-2003, 07:20 PM   #7
robbage
 
Registered: Dec 2002
Distribution: Fedora Core 4
Posts: 35
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $100.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution: RH 9.0


Don't know what the $AUD to $USD was when I bought it, but it was too expensive :)
No support for the hardware volume up/down/mute connector.
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Old 01-04-2004, 07:09 PM   #8
jtshaw
 
Registered: Nov 2000
Distribution: Gentoo amd64/PPC, Kubuntu, Slackware
Posts: 3,814
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $20.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.0
Distribution: Gentoo


I use pretty much all the features of the card with the emu10k1 driver that is built into the kernel and it works great.
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Old 01-23-2004, 02:20 PM   #9
Astro
 
Registered: Jan 2003
Distribution: Slackware 12
Posts: 653
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $15.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.24
Distribution: Slackware 9.1


No problems except a few quirks with getting the rear speakers working in the 5.1 setup.
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Old 02-09-2004, 10:48 PM   #10
vectordrake
 
Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: Something alpha or beta, binary or source...
Posts: 2,252
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.2-1mdk
Distribution: Mandrake 10.0 Beta2


Used the stock emu10k1 driver. Worked fine out of the box (the mixer has zillions of devices and there are a lot of modules to this one)
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Old 02-12-2004, 02:51 AM   #11
Guru3
 
Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: RedHat 9, Fedora Core 1
Posts: 360
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.20-6
Distribution: RedHat9


Already exisiting installation, just plugged it in and Kudzu took care of the rest of installation.
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Old 02-22-2004, 10:11 PM   #12
Thetargos
 
Registered: Mar 2003
Distribution: Fedora Core 5, 7 & 8T2; Knoppix, Ubuntu (Mint)
Posts: 1,677
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.3
Distribution: Fedora Core 1


Using ALSA with this card is just amazing. It performs quite good, has very good sound quality. The supplied drivers in the 2.6.x kernels still requires that you either:
  • Have had another installation of ALSA to take care about the devices under /dev/.
  • Download (pretty much any version of) the ALSA drivers so you can execute such command (./sddevices), and have your devices created.
In any case you must download and install (again pretty much any version) of the ALSA utilities package, since it will install the alsamixer, with which you won't need to recure to some esoteric initialization file editting, you just run the program and unmute the channels you want to use.
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Old 02-25-2004, 01:56 PM   #13
rhraz
 
Registered: Feb 2004
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2
Posts: 80
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $26.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.22-10
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2


Mandrake picked this card up without me having to load anything. I just had to unmute the volume in the KMix program.
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Old 03-11-2004, 11:11 AM   #14
czarherr
 
Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Slackware 10.1
Posts: 270
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $49.99 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.24
Distribution: Slackware 9.1


ironically, i couldnt get it to run correctly under ANY windows os, turns out that its windows drivers tend to be a bit flakey due to compatability issues in the way windows handles hardware. The tech support actually suggested i run the cards under linux, where

"They are basically guaranteed to run well and be autodetected"

in the techs words :D
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Old 05-02-2004, 11:27 AM   #15
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Registered: May 2004
Distribution: debian
Posts: 235
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $60.00 | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.25custom
Distribution: Debain


Digital out requires finding a compatable verision of emu-tools. otherwise, all is good.
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