I'm wondering if anybody else has had a problem with sound support using the EMU10k1 driver for the creative sblive card. Mine sounds pretty bad sometimes, with delays and crackling at the end of any wav file it plays. I was fine under slack 8.1. DVDs played beautifully, etc. Now, though, with Slack 9, dvds are choppy, system event sounds echo with static, and I'm an overall unhappy camper.

I needed to switch from 8.1 because I kept getting freezes. I'm running the NVIDIA drivers for my GeForce4, and I'm wondering if this might just be causing some of my problems, at least the instability ones when running X. I also wondered about Dropline Gnome -- usually, when I would log out of X, something about the Gnome panel would crash, although after a short error message, it went about its business and dumped me back on the command line.

BTW, I even compiled a custom kernel (2.4.20) under slack 9 that had support for the EMU10K1 included directly. This didn't solve the problem, so I concluded it wasn't a mess-up from downloading the software from Slackware.

Also, I was wondering if anybody might know how to reinstall the NVIDIA kernel driver for a new kernel. I tried to do it, and it said it installed okay, then it couldn't find one of the libraries it needed.

Any help y'all can provide me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian

Maybe try the alsa drivers for your sound.

to answer your question, nope 2.4.20 doesnt suck

Why would the alsa drivers work on an EMU10K1?

Should I just go and get an older kernel? I can do this... Perhaps I should. The 2.4.19 seemed to work okay.

I tried to install the nvidia-drivers on my slack 9.0 system , but it refused to install, because the kernelmodule was compiled for the 2.4.18 kernel , it said.

The new hotplugg feature are maybe causing the soundcard trouble, try to disable it.
I have an audigy-player card , choosed not to enable hotplugging.

Which kernel module is used by the Audigy card? Is it the EMU10K1 driver?

emu10k1 runs fine on my pc..

hmmmm, I don't know, why would you put gas in a car???

He wanted to know why you would put diesel in an unleaded gas vehicle.

Thanks. I'm glad I didn't have to say that.

Just a little update...

For some reason, for me, on Slack 9.0, the 2.4.20 kernel does, well, suck. I have now reinstalled Slack 9 (after making sure I wasn't crazy, and making sure that 8.1 still DID make my sound card sound ok) and compiled the 2.4.18 kernel. Sound works like a champ, which it still doesn't with the 2.4.20 kernel. I even downloaded another iso and md5 checked it, just to make sure it wasn't something so stupid as a corrupted package... even though I thought this was impossible.

What was, seemingly, more impossible, was that the KERNEL would be messing up. A stable release at that. Can't say i understand, but for some reason, the 2.4.20 kernel will NOT run my EMU10K1 correctly.

Now, should I bother the guys at kernel.org? Or is there something anybody else thinks I should try? I'd really be interested in knowing.

Thanks,
Brian

2.4.20 won't run my emu10k1 either.

My emu10k1 works fine on Slackware 8.1 and 9.0, both with kernel-2.4.20. What you should look at is the scripts and config files in the emu-tools package, you need to edit the conf file and run the script at boot to set up the card correctly.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1

lol, ok...why would alsa be considered diesel?? For my card at least the kernel drivers don't work right....alsa works perfectly. That's why I suggested them.

But what's so bad about alsa?

Aussie, thanks for your advice..but...

I now have the card working fine with the 2.4.18 kernel. I didn't change any config files either. Why should I have to run this script on 2.4.20?

Also, if I am to run this script, how exactly should I modify it? I'm running a (relatively old) Creative SBLive! MP3+. Not 5.1. It's on an Asus motherboard with an Athlon processor and 512 MB of DDR. Running an NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 400... as speakers, I just have the SBLive! running into a 1/8 inch to RCA jack into my stereo with normal stereo speakers.

Have gotten it working script-free on about 3 different kernels before this. I appreciate any explanation you can give me.

Brian