Did it work for you? I still have problems w/ the joystick - "...device or resource busy". I found a web site today which I hope may help out some. Here is the URL: http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme/index3.html Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 62 T.W. Alexander Dr. Research Triangle Park, NC mdcleary@dg-rtp.dg.com (919) 248-6033 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Casey [mailto:dwcasey@mysun.com] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 12:17 PM To: Cleary, Mike Subject: Re: [SLE] SoundBlaster Live! X-gamer; and joystick Thanks for the info, Mike. I'm going try this and cross my fingers. I've got the X-Gamer card as well, but have had problems. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cleary, Mike" Date: Monday, October 16, 2000 10:20 am Subject: [SLE] SoundBlaster Live! X-gamer; and joystick

Received my new soundcard this weekend, and finally managed to get it working right. Actually, that's misleading - it worked right from the start. However, once I installed the Creative software, I couldn't boot back into Windows. To make a very long story short, I had to disable SB16 emulation (not a crisis since you only need it for DOS games anyway).

So then I thought I'd see how Linux handled the new card, but soon discovered that I could not boot linux!!! Windows had assigned the soundcard the same IRQ as my Promise Ultra66 controller. Guess what's plugged into that.......my linux drive. So I started playing musical chairs with the PCI slots and finally managed to move the cards around so that the Ultra66 was not sharing its IRQ (except w/ PCI steering). After that Linux booted right up - only one failure in boot messages - it could'nt find my joystick.

Here are the steps I used to get the sound card working in Linux (SuSE 6.4):

1. Ran alsaconf

(Since I knew I was getting this card, I had already installed the EMU10K1 driver from the CDs).

That's it. CD music works, KDE system sounds work, sound in games works. After seeing all of the problems some people on this list have had w/ the SB Live!, it was kind of anti-climatic....:-) (BTW, I checked and Yast2 recognizes the card too)

There is one problem though - I can no longer get my joystick to work. Whenever I try to load the joy-sidewinder.o module I get the following:

"...device or resource busy."

I load joystick.o and joy-sidewinder.o in boot.local. An "lsmod" shows that the joystick.o has loaded fine, but that's as far as I get. Neither of these are in the kernel, but were built as modules. Any ideas on how and where to start tracking this one down would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 62 T.W. Alexander Dr. Research Triangle Park, NC mdcleary@dg-rtp.dg.com (919) 248-6033 ------------------------------------------------------------------- -------

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