Hey all,

I have Slackware 10.1 and a Sounblaster Live! 24bit sound card. Using OSS.

In my laptop (Dell C610), I use 'rexima' as mixer. No problems

With my Soundblaster Live! card, I have to use Alsamixer, as rexima returns
'rexima: mixer has no devices!'

Not understanding the problem, I'm just curious if there is a way to get rexima working with this card?

Thanks.

I don't think you are using OSS (Open Sound System). Alsamixer is for the alsa sound driver. I don't know anything about rexima, but I am guessing that it will only work with OSS. Alsamixer will only work if alsa is installed and working.

Yeah, I dont really understand it. I use alsaconf to set up the driver and use alsamixer for volume.
But Sound System has to be set up for OSS with this card.

The 24bit driver setup in Slackware 10.1 is very strange. If (under 'control panel', Sound system is set to Alsa, the soundblaster live! 24bit card sounds like crap. However, when set to OSS, (which mine is), the card sounds great! And yes, alsamixer still controls volume, using OSS.

If you have 10.1, look at how it's set up for the snd-ca0106 driver.

Anyways, thanks for responding.

You should update to 1.0.9rc3 of ALSA. That has properly implemented duplex sound drivers for the Live! 24-bit, and you don't need to use OSS any more. That will probably fix your problems.

Ah. Cool.

I will try that then. Thanks a lot!

Do I also need to update to the new libraries,lib-plugins, etc, or do I just need the new driver?

Nevemind. Just looked at the documentation (what a novel idea!) , and the answer is there.
Thanks again.

Right on! I just installed the updated alsa drivers, and finally 'Advanced Linux Sound Architecture' Is working and sounding great! And as an added bonus, programs that sounded like total crap before, with lots of skips and pops (like amp and mp3blaster for example) SOund great now.

Cant thank you enough killerbob!

Right on!

np. I have the same card, and if it wasn't for a recent need to reinstall everything, I would never have noticed. I had 1.0.9rc2 previously, but after the reinstall, CVS was up to 1.0.9rc3 and it suddenly worked.