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Distribution: SuSE 9.1 on P4 2.8E GHz 800 MHz, 1.5GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9200SE 128MB, 120GB SATA Master, 80GB Slave
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SoundBlaster Live! techie problem
i have a SoundBlaster Live! Sound card using the emu10k1. i found the .rpm and the .bz2 files, and on webpages and video files i get sound. but when i use Gaim i can't hear any thing. all i here are the system beeps and bobbles inside the box... how can i get SBLive! to work within SuSE 9.1 Linux Fully? thank you
Distribution: SuSE 9.1 on P4 2.8E GHz 800 MHz, 1.5GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9200SE 128MB, 120GB SATA Master, 80GB Slave
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i tried that but it just won't work... only options i have are command or console beep... and if i choose command it does not work right. so please help me.. tell me how i can configure gaim to use other sounds than that system beep... there it is again.
Distribution: SuSE 9.1 on P4 2.8E GHz 800 MHz, 1.5GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9200SE 128MB, 120GB SATA Master, 80GB Slave
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<--- again i reply... but i have to say i have only been on linux for about 3-4 days now as of this post and i have to ask. how do i find if arts or esd are installed?
go to --->Sound System ---> check if the option for start arts sound server on startup is checked..
check the --->System Notifications section [u could set up notifications for various applications using the media player of ur choice and also play different sounds...]
and yes SuSE 9.1 as far as i know [because that's what i use] does have YaST installed. it is basically a windows Update util. i am sure you know because other linux distros may have some similar programs for packages installs.
but the thing is.... how can i use YaST to install Esound support?
i do not know where to set the dir location or the URL to d/l from.
but thank you TUXpect you have helped gr8ly in my journey into the linux world.
Distribution: SuSE 9.1 on P4 2.8E GHz 800 MHz, 1.5GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9200SE 128MB, 120GB SATA Master, 80GB Slave
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dependedncies not ok with esound devel
alsa-devel needed to install esound devel. i will try to find alsa-devel and the alsa client for SuSE 9.1 PE. thank you for this fine post
2) open xmms --->preferences--->Audio I/o plugins---->Output plugins ---> Check if u have Esound output plugin [libesdout.so] and select it..
3)restart xmms
4) go to gaim --->tools-->preferences---->Sounds {See if esound shows up} ---> select it ---> goto
Sound events and select all the sound events u wanna turn on ---> highlight one of the events and
click on test... it should work even when u are listening to a song on XMMS [ ie. with esound output plugin selected]
5) if the above step fails
go to gaim --->tools-->preferences---->Sounds --->select Command --> in the text box "type" --->esdplay %s ---> goto Sound events and select all the sound events u wanna turn on ---> highlight one of the events and click on test... it should work even when u are listening to a song on XMMS [ ie. with esound output plugin selected]
Tell me how it goes...
Last edited by UsualTuxpect; 09-09-2004 at 01:50 PM.
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