Sounb Blaster Audigy in RedHat 8.0

Zarathustra[H] · 11-13-2002, 08:29 PM

Hey all!

Got a quick question for ya...

The module that supports sound on the SB audigy was apparently included with my RedHat 8.0 package.

The sound works fine... With only one little problem... The driver is supposed to support digital out on the Audigy, but I cant figure out where to set it to digital out.

My speakers only have a digital in, no analogue.. so I'm stuck with a pair of shitty headphones rihgt now.

Any hints tips or tricks on how to configure my Audigy woould be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Matt

ppuddick · 12-04-2002, 10:23 AM

I'm glad you got your Audigy to work in rh8.0. I'm having immense problems getting mine to work. How did you do that? Any help would be appreciated. Cheers

m00by · 12-06-2002, 09:04 AM

ooooh... My audigy works, and luckily I have lame analog speakers so that I don't have to worry about that digital out thing, though I wish I did. I have a NEAT problem though. whenever I try and play anything through XMMS it just pops up a blank playlist, even when I explicitly select an MP3 in the playlist selector thing. ahhh...progress. =D I'm thinking of running away to Slackware...if Knoppix properly supported my sound card, I'd REALLY consider abandoning a hard drive installation =D good luck to you man!

Zarathustra[H] · 12-08-2002, 09:31 PM

My Audigy was detected and installed automatically by the installer in Redhat 8.0

as far as mp3's go, Redhat 8.0 ships without mp3 support becasue of copywright issues.. However adding support is REALLY easy.. If you go to the xmms web page and download the rpm and double click on it.

(or you could do rpm -ivh from the console.)

m00by · 12-09-2002, 11:39 AM

hey, thanks for the input. I got it working, but I got sick of redhat and installed debian 3.0 =D I have to get ncurses working there so I can recompile my kernel

make menuconfig is my friend. =D

Zarathustra[H] · 12-09-2002, 12:18 PM

I have found a useful webpage that outlines exactly how to get your Audigy working.

the guy poutlines methods he used in Gentoo Linux, but they are essentially universal for all distributions of Linux.

http://basic-rip.co.uk/tenpin/linux_audigy_faq.html

It got my audigy working right away!