Soundblaster Live! plat. front bay in 7.3 PE
Has anyone gotten a SB live platnum front bay (the one with the digital, midi, rca, etc inputs in it) to work with SuSE 7.3 Professional Edition? or with any distro for that matter? i would really like to be able to use this hardware in linux instead of having to boot into windows to take advantage of it. Jason
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 01:03 pm, jason vinson wrote:
Has anyone gotten a SB live platnum front bay (the one with the digital, midi, rca, etc inputs in it) to work with SuSE 7.3 Professional Edition? or with any distro for that matter? i would really like to be able to use this hardware in linux instead of having to boot into windows to take advantage of it. I don't have this card but was just at creatives site and happened to see mention of it.
Heres the url: ftp://opensource.creative.com/pub/doc/live_faq.html#CardsSupported Heres the relevant quote from the page: "Support for the Live Drive is possible but requires the DSP microcode tools." not much info but maybe a start good luck -- dh I've been awake: 23 hours minutes Suse Linux 7.2 professional kernel 2.4.17, xFree86 4.2.0, kde 2.2.2
Has anyone gotten a SB live platnum front bay (the one with the digital, midi, rca, etc inputs in it) to work with SuSE 7.3 Professional Edition? or with any distro for that matter? i would really like to be able to use this hardware in linux instead of having to boot into windows to take advantage of it.
took me a while to figure that one out, too. the trick for me was to use the alsa sound drivers instead of the standard kernel drivers. not sure if all of the ports on the 'live! drive' are supported, but i know that the headphone jack is. -- trey
On Thursday 09 May 2002 05:58, Trey Gruel wrote:
Has anyone gotten a SB live platnum front bay (the one with the digital, midi, rca, etc inputs in it) to work with SuSE 7.3 Professional Edition? or with any distro for that matter? i would really like to be able to use this hardware in linux instead of having to boot into windows to take advantage of it.
took me a while to figure that one out, too. the trick for me was to use the alsa sound drivers instead of the standard kernel drivers. not sure if all of the ports on the 'live! drive' are supported, but i know that the headphone jack is.
Some time ago I spent a lot of time trying to get the digital I/O going... I never succeeded. Along the way I tried both OSS (frem Creative) and Alsa drivers. Somewhere along the way I had the Line I/O (rca) working, But still no luck with the Digital. I know that it involves emu-dspmgr & friends, but the documentation was sparse, and I got no response from the creative-list. Even though I did see some posts that seemed to suggest that *somebody* had it working. At this point I honestly don't remember which drivers (what versions) did what, since I abandoned that whole thing. (I got *really* tired of switching around and losing cd-playing and whatnot) What I wanted, (still do) was to transfer some DAT-recordings of my band to cd. And it seemed to me to be the logical solution to make use of the digital input, so as to avoid going through a A-D D-A stage, just to get the sound through the wires. Just yesterday i had some mailexchenge with someone who told me that, effectively *all* digital input on these cards get resampled regardless. So staying digital might very well produce a *worse* quality sound, than going analog... :( In conclusion: While I might give a shot with SuSE 8, and the (hopefully) revised drivers, I've sort of lost confidence that it will *ever* work right. In the end I'll probably just settle for less, and use the analog I/O. At least I know, that *that's* possible. If anyone ever gets that part of the hardware working properly... puhlease let us know... Sorry to be the pessimist, but I thought you should know what I know... Jon -- .signature ;)
From the looks of things, this seems like quite a chore to set up. I am actually more concerned with getting the RCA in and the Headphone out to work. I do a bit of DJ'ing and i record myself on my pc via the RCA connectors. I imagine that since there is no definitive documentation, this hardware is extremely hard to configure in linux. I'll try it tonight (alsa drivers and DSP microcode tools, although the later is probably not needed unless i want to try the digi-ports) and post my results back to the list.
wish me luck ;) Jason On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 03:56, Jon Clausen wrote:
On Thursday 09 May 2002 05:58, Trey Gruel wrote:
Has anyone gotten a SB live platnum front bay (the one with the digital, midi, rca, etc inputs in it) to work with SuSE 7.3 Professional Edition? or with any distro for that matter? i would really like to be able to use this hardware in linux instead of having to boot into windows to take advantage of it.
took me a while to figure that one out, too. the trick for me was to use the alsa sound drivers instead of the standard kernel drivers. not sure if all of the ports on the 'live! drive' are supported, but i know that the headphone jack is.
Some time ago I spent a lot of time trying to get the digital I/O going... I never succeeded. Along the way I tried both OSS (frem Creative) and Alsa drivers.
Somewhere along the way I had the Line I/O (rca) working, But still no luck with the Digital. I know that it involves emu-dspmgr & friends, but the documentation was sparse, and I got no response from the creative-list. Even though I did see some posts that seemed to suggest that *somebody* had it working.
At this point I honestly don't remember which drivers (what versions) did what, since I abandoned that whole thing. (I got *really* tired of switching around and losing cd-playing and whatnot)
What I wanted, (still do) was to transfer some DAT-recordings of my band to cd. And it seemed to me to be the logical solution to make use of the digital input, so as to avoid going through a A-D D-A stage, just to get the sound through the wires.
Just yesterday i had some mailexchenge with someone who told me that, effectively *all* digital input on these cards get resampled regardless. So staying digital might very well produce a *worse* quality sound, than going analog... :(
In conclusion: While I might give a shot with SuSE 8, and the (hopefully) revised drivers, I've sort of lost confidence that it will *ever* work right. In the end I'll probably just settle for less, and use the analog I/O. At least I know, that *that's* possible.
If anyone ever gets that part of the hardware working properly... puhlease let us know...
Sorry to be the pessimist, but I thought you should know what I know...
Jon -- .signature ;)
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On Thursday 09 May 2002 15:56, jason vinson wrote:
From the looks of things, this seems like quite a chore to set up. I am actually more concerned with getting the RCA in and the Headphone out to work.
Well, since analog is what you're after, then you can *definitely* get it to work. I'm sorry I can't tell you which version of what driver made that work, but I know know that *something* does...
I do a bit of DJ'ing and i record myself on my pc via the RCA connectors. I imagine that since there is no definitive documentation, this hardware is extremely hard to configure in linux.
Actually it's not *that* bad. Sure you need to get the latest (or next-to-latest) driver source and compile it and all that, but as long as you don't need to get the digital stuff working, you don't *need* to mess with dspmgr and all that. Because the chip is set to analog by default... IINM that is...
I'll try it tonight (alsa drivers and DSP microcode tools, although the later is probably not needed unless i want to try the digi-ports) and post my results back to the list.
Please do :)
wish me luck ;)
The best of it! HTH Jon Btw: I'll get it even without the cc: -- .signature ;)
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