SoundBlaster Live! under Linux? 42
Shrub writes in with this query:
"I know Creative is planning on writing Linux drivers,
but in the meantime.. has anyone managed to get a SoundBlaster
Live! card working in Linux? "
Be careful when a loop exits to the same place from side and bottom.
Good timing (Score:1)
Hi all,
I'm just about to put together a new computer. I've been considering which sound card to buy and I'm still somewhat clueless. I hear of problems with the Soundblaster PCI64 and PCI128, as well as the Live! Should I just stick with the old proved SB16?
Which sound card offers the best 'Linux value'? In other words, which modern sound cards are fully supported in Linux?
Thanks for the help!
MX300 (Score:1)
I believe I once heard that drivers for one would be extremely easy to make work for the other, so does anyone know of any advances toward a driver for the MX300?
I think the chipset is called the Vortex 3D but someone correct me here.
~Chris Carlin
MX300 (Score:1)
So anyone know of a group working on drivers that will be free? (for us poor college students...)
~Chris Carlin
MX300 (Score:1)
I keep hearing about how Diamond can release drastic updates to the hardware adding completely new features through the programmable chipset/chip....
AWE 64 (Score:1)
I have to boot into DOS, load the setupsa.exe drivers to initialize it, and then use loadlin to boot into Linux. Even then the mixer doesn't work, so everything is really, really quiet.
I think Alan Cox mentioned buying an OPL3SAx in his diary the other day, so the support could improve soon, but for now I'd go SB16/SB64 Value all the way.
There is a driver on the Creative Developer page?! (Score:1)
Check out:
http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/
For this file:
ftp://ftp.soundblaster.com/pub/creative/beta/sb
sb16 compatibility? (Score:1)
Right now, i just want a way to play my mp3s in linux so that i can limit my windows usage to just playing Tribes.
Off-topic: It seems like whenever i play Tribes, some loser tries to use netbus on my firewall (ie they try to access port 12345). It's happened about 4 times, and always from a different dial-up modem connection, and from various different parts of the US. Anyone else notice weird shit like this?
Soundblaster AWE 64 and Kernel 2.2 (Score:1)
Since we are on a SB topic.
I have a SB AWE 64, sound card and am trying to get it to work with the 2.2.5 kernel. It recognizes half of the devices but not the AWE. I have /dev/dsp reecognized, but when it boots up it it says AWE not found. It used to work under 2.0.36, but now I am using 2.2 and there are new sound drivers. I have configured the kernel the way it explains in the kernel sources Documentation/sound dir, enabling the options it describes to. I have a conf.modules. It loads the sb correctly (soundcode, soundlow, sound, sb). It does not load the opl3 at all but I can manually load it or load it.
The main problem is when it tries to load the awe_wave, the module gets loaded but the AWE device is not found. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, and email can be sent to joeja@mindspring.com [mailto]
Anyone have an "up-to-date" howto with the new kernel 2.2's?????????????
AWE 64 and 2.2 (Score:1)
Well I just got my AWE64 to work. there is support for it in the 2.2 kernels. So if you are using 2.2 I'd recommend going with the AWE64 before a SB16. the AWE64 is full duplex. You'll need to set up pnp, but that is not that difficult. once you have set upi a pnpconf file, you can load the modules,, soundcore, soundlow, sound, uart401, sb, awe_wave, opl3. When loading the sb you'll need to pass a few parameters to it, you will alsohave to pass parameters to the opl3, as well...
it works pretty good ... I do not know about support for the other SB cards, I have heard that som eof the PCI cards will work ....
Don't need the chip masks, fer .... (Score:1)
not planning on making our own boards.
Sigh.
uh, sure... (Score:1)
A nice gesture, but this is _not_ true Linux support IMO. Where's the source?
The fact that they're not trying to support SMP indicates that the driver will quite possibly be buggy on non-SMP machines too. (Under NT at least, drivers that bomb on SMP also are quite buggy in non-SMP mode too. It's just the bugs come to the surface much faster under SMP. Case in point: the SB Live drivers :)
MX300 (Score:1)
The MX300 is hard-wired silicon. The SB-Live uses the EMU-10K chip which is a DSP making it quite a lot more flexible i.e. Creative can change (improve) the functionality by changing the programming of the DSP. You'd need programming specs to support the MX-300.
Tim
MX300 (Score:1)
cameron@fuzzydice.com
My particular kludge (Score:1)
Monty
Current status on SB Live! support (Score:1)
-jab
SBLive driver availability (Score:1)
SB 16 (Score:1)
I just rooted our my OLD SB pro 8 bit,
and stuck it in on the same irq / dma / etc
as the SB Live SB16 emulation.
It works fine unders linux, and windows doesn't see it, and uses the SB16 emulation instead for all my old dos games.
Cool huh, best of both world, except for when I try and play a 16bit sound under linux )C:
The drivers from Creative should be available soon (Score:1)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:31:55 -0800
From: Jacob Hawley
To: bbarrett@nd.edu
Cc: Phillip Williams
Subject: Re: Developer: Website Feedback
Yes. We will have the driver in the next two weeks. We are still working out
the versions for the SB-Live driver. Currently we are looking at 2.0.36 as
well
as 2.2.x. Both versions would included versioning and non-versioning builds of
the kernel and will not support SMP.
Jake
Linux-kernel (Score:1)
sb16 compatibility? (Score:1)
Current status on SB Live! support (Score:1)
Opensound BETA support released (Score:1)
Linux section at http://developer.soundblaster.com (Score:1)
I hope that they'll release spec of source for the SBLive! full, if not, I think that the driver will always be buggy and I don't think that I'll buy one... I want to buy one, but only when it will be fully supported by Linux...
sb16 compatibility? (Score:2)
As for Tribes, I hadn't noticed. I go through IP Masq, so they're not gonna get to my Win box. But try sitting on EFNet once in a while, then you'll see telnets, ftps, etc coming in.
Linux-kernel (Score:2)