Sound on the DELL Sound Blaster live (emu10k1X)
Hi
I've just installed gentoo linux (2.6.5 kernel) on my Dell. Everything is working but the sound. At first I used the emu10k1 driver from the kernel which wouldn't work at all. Then I found out that DELL modifies the SoundBlaster, so they don't work with Linux (they're getting a complaint as soon as their phone lines open :cool: ) I basically gave up until this morning, when I saw that alsa1.0.5 is out. I downloaded the ALSA driver and installed it. I unmuted my channels and Code:
$ aplay file.wav I would be very greatful if someone could help me get this to work! My stuff: Code:
Ben |
OK, now after a restart it magically started to partially work ... and the quality is awful!
-> JuK is awful quality -> xmms gives an error on oss-output-plugin, and no error (but also no sound) on the alsa-output-plugin -> mpg123 gives an error /dev/dsp not found (but no error like that in kde startup) -> kde sounds (like "are you sure"-alerts) also awful quality (lots of static and so) what's wrong? |
OK, I got it to work. I downloaded the new ALSA-driver, ALSA-oss and ALSA-lib (1.0.5) and installed them. Now it works fine!
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Need install help
Hey, I just downloaded the new stuff your talking about but I'm a complete nebie and don't know how to install this thing. I extracted the files and tried running some of the scripts as well as make and make install nothing worked. . . Be gentle, I said I was a nebie ;)
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Nubbin: Exactly what are you trying to install? Can you give us some specific details?
ben_ch: Congrats, I don't think anyone else has gotten it to work with ALSA before (only proprietary drivers)! Because of that, you should post your findings on the official page for those drivers (emu10k1). They could use that info. The address is here: http://alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc...module=emu10k1 |
alsa-oss, I'm trying to do what ben_ch did. . . .I downloaded alsa-oss and extracted the tar but I can't get past that. . . I guess I gotta export KERNELPATH=bla bla && export so on then make and make install but I'm not sure, could someone help me out? alsa did not give any install instructions on the site or with the tarball.
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You should compile the driver packages in this order (the ./configure, make, and make install):
alsa-driver alsa-lib alsa-utils alsa-oss Note that alsa-oss comes last, it's probably the problem. Try doing it in order from top to bottom. |
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