Sound Blaster Live 24 bit 7.1 drivers

lowpingnoob · 06-12-2005, 11:22 AM

Where do you get the Sound Blaster Live 24 Bit 7.1 drivers for ALSA? I have seen instructions for installing (which i don't understand, so if I could please have help with that also), but I haven' t seen the driver anywhere.

franzfranz · 06-13-2005, 10:29 AM

from the alsa webpage. Here are the instructions and the modules and such for your card:
link

lowpingnoob · 06-13-2005, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by franzfranz
from the alsa webpage. Here are the instructions and the modules and such for your card:
link

Ok got that, don't neefd to recompile kernel, but the part with ./configure or whatever, what do I do there (i already had alsa drivers, utils, etc (no alsa mixer though)? but the important module ca0106 i think, isn't there.

franzfranz · 06-13-2005, 01:10 PM

when you say it wasn't there, do you mean it wasn't in the alsa listing of cards, or when you type lsmod you don't get that module to show up? try typing lsmod and see what modules you have loaded. if ca0106 isn't there try modprobing it

Code:

modprobe ca0106

if that gives you an error about no such module, then you probably have to monkey around with the kernel a bit.

the ./configure step is the actual configuration/compiling of the alsa packages.

Code:

./configure --with-cards=ca0106 --with-sequencer=yes;make;make install

just installs the packages and tells it what card to compile for.

lowpingnoob · 06-13-2005, 01:32 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by franzfranz
when you say it wasn't there, do you mean it wasn't in the alsa listing of cards, or when you type lsmod you don't get that module to show up? try typing lsmod and see what modules you have loaded. if ca0106 isn't there try modprobing it

Code:

modprobe ca0106

if that gives you an error about no such module, then you probably have to monkey around with the kernel a bit.

the ./configure step is the actual configuration/compiling of the alsa packages.

Code:

./configure --with-cards=ca0106 --with-sequencer=yes;make;make install

just installs the packages and tells it what card to compile for.

Im updating kernel and such, so after i am done, I am going to run the code ./configure --with-cards=ca0106 --with.... that you have there thanks, that must be what i am doing wrong (modprobe does not find it, just not configured i guess, stupid me)

lowpingnoob · 06-13-2005, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by lowpingnoob
Im updating kernel and such, so after i am done, I am going to run the code ./configure --with-cards=ca0106 --with.... that you have there thanks, that must be what i am doing wrong (modprobe does not find it, just not configured i guess, stupid me)

[root@12-226-169-190 ~]# ./configure --with-cards=ca0106 --with-sequencer=yes;make;make install
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
[root@12-226-169-190 ~]#

no work help please

lowpingnoob · 06-13-2005, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by lowpingnoob
[root@12-226-169-190 ~]# ./configure --with-cards=ca0106 --with-sequencer=yes;make;make install
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
[root@12-226-169-190 ~]#

no work help please

i still dont understand, i didn't tell it to look for a directory, its ./con not /.con

lowpingnoob · 06-13-2005, 01:50 PM

here is my lsmod output

Code:

[root@12-226-169-190 ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_utf8                1985  1
parport_pc             24705  1
lp                     11565  0
parport                41737  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                24005  0
i2c_dev                10433  0
i2c_core               22081  1 i2c_dev
sunrpc                160421  1
ipt_REJECT              6465  1
ipt_state               1857  1
ip_conntrack           40693  1 ipt_state
iptable_filter          2753  1
ip_tables              16193  3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
button                  6481  0
battery                 8517  0
ac                      4805  0
nvidia               3708940  12
md5                     4033  1
ipv6                  232577  8
uhci_hcd               31449  0
ehci_hcd               31557  0
8139too                26305  0
mii                     4673  1 8139too
floppy                 58609  0
dm_snapshot            17029  0
dm_zero                 2369  0
dm_mirror              23341  2
ext3                  116809  2
jbd                    74969  1 ext3
dm_mod                 54741  6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
[root@12-226-169-190 ~]# ismod
bash: ismod: command not found
[root@12-226-169-190 ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_utf8                1985  1
parport_pc             24705  1
lp                     11565  0
parport                41737  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                24005  0
i2c_dev                10433  0
i2c_core               22081  1 i2c_dev
sunrpc                160421  1
ipt_REJECT              6465  1
ipt_state               1857  1
ip_conntrack           40693  1 ipt_state
iptable_filter          2753  1
ip_tables              16193  3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
button                  6481  0
battery                 8517  0
ac                      4805  0
nvidia               3708940  12
md5                     4033  1
ipv6                  232577  8
uhci_hcd               31449  0
ehci_hcd               31557  0
8139too                26305  0
mii                     4673  1 8139too
floppy                 58609  0
dm_snapshot            17029  0
dm_zero                 2369  0
dm_mirror              23341  2
ext3                  116809  2
jbd                    74969  1 ext3
dm_mod                 54741  6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
[root@12-226-169-190 ~]#

hope this is useful

franzfranz · 06-15-2005, 11:37 AM

you want to run ./configure within the directory that was created when you untarred the alsa packages

lowpingnoob · 06-15-2005, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by franzfranz
you want to run ./configure within the directory that was created when you untarred the alsa packages

im using fedora, it has Up2date, automatically updated everything, including alsa packages (all of them). Where would they be? And it was RPM install, not TAR.

franzfranz · 06-15-2005, 11:49 AM

hummm... well I'm not overly familiar with fedora, so I would guess maybe in /usr/src.

lowpingnoob · 06-15-2005, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by franzfranz
hummm... well I'm not overly familiar with fedora, so I would guess maybe in /usr/src.

correct, so now all i have to do, is navigate to that, run ./configure , and follow the rest of the alsa-project tutorial?

lowpingnoob · 06-15-2005, 11:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by lowpingnoob
correct, so now all i have to do, is navigate to that, run ./configure , and follow the rest of the alsa-project tutorial?

there is a folder called alsa, but there is nothing there...

lowpingnoob · 06-15-2005, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by lowpingnoob
there is a folder called alsa, but there is nothing there...

should i just get the stuff of the ALSA site, then unpack them to there?

lowpingnoob · 06-15-2005, 12:14 PM

i am just following their install to a tee. I get to the part where i have to use bunzip to extract the alsa driver, and I am wondering if I have to do that through the console, because it isn't working.