Sound Blaster Live

scottie · 10-21-2003, 08:31 AM

I've been trying to get the sound to work on my linux, I've got as far as downloading the emu10k1 driver for my sound blaster live card and think i have installed ok. (I got no errors anyway)

I got to the bit where it ses play a sound and it should auto detect it, i tried to play a sound but nothin happened, i dont know where i went wrong, do you guys have any idea?

scottie

trickykid · 10-21-2003, 10:25 AM

First of all, just about every later distro comes with the latest kernel that already has this module/driver enabled or ready for use.

Second what are you using to test the sound with? sndconfig?

If the module is loaded ( lsmod ) and you've changed the permissions on /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer as follows:

chmod 666 /dev/dsp* /dev/mixer*

So all users can use sound, then test by playing a media or sound file, etc. Oh and bring your sound volume control and make sure its not muted or all the way down for some reason.

bkbroil · 10-21-2003, 10:49 AM

AS stated earlier my linux distro installed the driver by default during setup. It did not work however and when I played the test sound I also got nothing. I looked all over this site and found one post that mentioned to turn off PNP support in the BIOS and that fixed it. Hope it helps

scottie · 10-22-2003, 05:47 PM

When i type sndconfig it just says command not found,
When i do lsmod it gives pcmcia_core, rt18139, ppp_deflate, ppp, slip, slhc, lp, parport_pc and parport

I get the distinct impression that i'm overlooking a fundamental flaw in what i'm doing, please help

scottie

GIJoe · 10-24-2003, 01:38 PM

try modprobe emu10k1 and test the sound again

scottie · 10-27-2003, 03:19 PM

the modprobe emu10k1 worked

cheers dudes

GIJoe · 10-31-2003, 04:58 AM

Nice to hear that I could help

Now I'm having strange usb mouse problem

( I tailed to /var/log/syslog and it shows me usb_control/bulk_msg timeout and missing user or kernel mode driver for mousdev each time I start hotplug system, can someone help me ?? Please ! My usb printer plugged next to this mouse is working just fine !