RE: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros
Dear Raul I have read your email, as you consider configuring Alsa with SUSE easy, could you please help me set up my Suse 7.1 professional edition to work with a sound blaster live card. Because for the life of me I have been unable to get this to work. I have mailed the list a couple of times with my problems and have recieved no help with my problems. If you could send me the steps that are required to be taken to get Suse to recognise and use my sound card and configure Alsa, I will follow your suggested steps and email you with any problems I encounter with any of the steps. 6 months without sound and getting quickly fed up with Linux. It's multi media capabilites are poor. Many thanks in advance Neil -----Original Message----- From: Raul Gutierrez Segales [mailto:oxford@campoalto.edu.py] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:02 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros One of the greatest things about SuSE & YaST with the use of Alsa is the easyness of configuring sound under Linux (although sometimes this can be a little confusing ... :-)) The thing is, what if you have to configure a PCI soundcard (on-board in the case that I have to face now) in Slackware for example, that is a distro that doesnt have any friendly tool and you have to do it the old-fashion way... Would you go for alsa or you would use the kernel support for sound (if the kernel supports PCI-sound, since I am not sure cause the Sound-HOWTO only made alussion to ISA cards). This is applicable to SuSE as well, cause I believe it is much better to learn things, especially in exciting *nix world, to things the hard way. Thanks alot, Raúl -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com
I too would like some help in getting my SBLive card to work in SuSE 7.3. I need to know what to turn on in the kernel, if I need to use Alsa (and how to use it), and what needs to go into modules.conf. I've been trying forever to get this to work. Chris Geske LIMS Manager Northern Lake Service, Inc. email: lims@newnorth.net phone: 715-478-2777 -----Original Message----- From: Briggs, N. - Neil - [mailto:N.Briggs@Canon-Europa.com] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 9:08 AM To: 'Raul Gutierrez Segales' Cc: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: RE: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros Dear Raul I have read your email, as you consider configuring Alsa with SUSE easy, could you please help me set up my Suse 7.1 professional edition to work with a sound blaster live card. Because for the life of me I have been unable to get this to work. I have mailed the list a couple of times with my problems and have recieved no help with my problems. If you could send me the steps that are required to be taken to get Suse to recognise and use my sound card and configure Alsa, I will follow your suggested steps and email you with any problems I encounter with any of the steps. 6 months without sound and getting quickly fed up with Linux. It's multi media capabilites are poor. Many thanks in advance Neil -----Original Message----- From: Raul Gutierrez Segales [mailto:oxford@campoalto.edu.py] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:02 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros One of the greatest things about SuSE & YaST with the use of Alsa is the easyness of configuring sound under Linux (although sometimes this can be a little confusing ... :-)) The thing is, what if you have to configure a PCI soundcard (on-board in the case that I have to face now) in Slackware for example, that is a distro that doesnt have any friendly tool and you have to do it the old-fashion way... Would you go for alsa or you would use the kernel support for sound (if the kernel supports PCI-sound, since I am not sure cause the Sound-HOWTO only made alussion to ISA cards). This is applicable to SuSE as well, cause I believe it is much better to learn things, especially in exciting *nix world, to things the hard way. Thanks alot, Raúl -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com
hi, i have the sblive running here fine, but not with alsa .... to get it working, do the following : in ther kernel configuration, activate sound support as module get the latest driver from creative, compile and install it, and then just do a "depmod -a", thats how it worked for me the last time. i personally dont like also because they are changing the api too often and too enermous, so that older apps wont work with newer versions ... and, last but not least, i have a better response time with the kernel modules, alsa gives me too much lag between input and output .... greets, chris Am Donnerstag, 1. November 2001 16:46 schrieb lims:
I too would like some help in getting my SBLive card to work in SuSE 7.3. I need to know what to turn on in the kernel, if I need to use Alsa (and how to use it), and what needs to go into modules.conf.
I've been trying forever to get this to work.
Chris Geske LIMS Manager Northern Lake Service, Inc. email: lims@newnorth.net phone: 715-478-2777
-----Original Message----- From: Briggs, N. - Neil - [mailto:N.Briggs@Canon-Europa.com] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 9:08 AM To: 'Raul Gutierrez Segales' Cc: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: RE: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros
Dear Raul
I have read your email, as you consider configuring Alsa with SUSE easy, could you please help me set up my Suse 7.1 professional edition to work with a sound blaster live card. Because for the life of me I have been unable to get this to work. I have mailed the list a couple of times with my problems and have recieved no help with my problems.
If you could send me the steps that are required to be taken to get Suse to recognise and use my sound card and configure Alsa, I will follow your suggested steps and email you with any problems I encounter with any of the steps.
6 months without sound and getting quickly fed up with Linux. It's multi media capabilites are poor.
Many thanks in advance Neil
-----Original Message----- From: Raul Gutierrez Segales [mailto:oxford@campoalto.edu.py] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:02 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros
One of the greatest things about SuSE & YaST with the use of Alsa is the easyness of configuring sound under Linux (although sometimes this can be a little confusing ... :-))
The thing is, what if you have to configure a PCI soundcard (on-board in the case that I have to face now) in Slackware for example, that is a distro that doesnt have any friendly tool and you have to do it the old-fashion way... Would you go for alsa or you would use the kernel support for sound (if the kernel supports PCI-sound, since I am not sure cause the Sound-HOWTO only made alussion to ISA cards).
This is applicable to SuSE as well, cause I believe it is much better to learn things, especially in exciting *nix world, to things the hard way.
Thanks alot,
Raúl
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I too would like some help in getting my SBLive card to work in SuSE 7.3. I need to know what to turn on in the kernel, if I need to use Alsa (and how to use it), and what needs to go into modules.conf.
I've been trying forever to get this to work.
Chris Geske LIMS Manager Northern Lake Service, Inc. email: lims@newnorth.net phone: 715-478-2777
-----Original Message----- From: Briggs, N. - Neil - [mailto:N.Briggs@Canon-Europa.com] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 9:08 AM To: 'Raul Gutierrez Segales' Cc: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: RE: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros
Dear Raul
I have read your email, as you consider configuring Alsa with SUSE easy, could you please help me set up my Suse 7.1 professional edition to work with a sound blaster live card. Because for the life of me I have been unable to get this to work. I have mailed the list a couple of times with my problems and have recieved no help with my problems.
If you could send me the steps that are required to be taken to get Suse to recognise and use my sound card and configure Alsa, I will follow your suggested steps and email you with any problems I encounter with any of
Do you have a copy of your modules.conf. I did exactly as you said, and mine isn't working. I think it's because I screwed up my modules.conf. When I go into yast2 and set up sound, it returns with error about unable to load module snd-card-emu10k1. Chris Geske LIMS Manager Northern Lake Service, Inc. email: lims@newnorth.net phone: 715-478-2777 -----Original Message----- From: Christian Klippel [mailto:ck@mamalala.de] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:59 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros hi, i have the sblive running here fine, but not with alsa .... to get it working, do the following : in ther kernel configuration, activate sound support as module get the latest driver from creative, compile and install it, and then just do a "depmod -a", thats how it worked for me the last time. i personally dont like also because they are changing the api too often and too enermous, so that older apps wont work with newer versions ... and, last but not least, i have a better response time with the kernel modules, alsa gives me too much lag between input and output .... greets, chris Am Donnerstag, 1. November 2001 16:46 schrieb lims: the
steps.
6 months without sound and getting quickly fed up with Linux. It's multi media capabilites are poor.
Many thanks in advance Neil
-----Original Message----- From: Raul Gutierrez Segales [mailto:oxford@campoalto.edu.py] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:02 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros
One of the greatest things about SuSE & YaST with the use of Alsa is the easyness of configuring sound under Linux (although sometimes this can be a little confusing ... :-))
The thing is, what if you have to configure a PCI soundcard (on-board in the case that I have to face now) in Slackware for example, that is a distro that doesnt have any friendly tool and you have to do it the old-fashion way... Would you go for alsa or you would use the kernel support for sound (if the kernel supports PCI-sound, since I am not sure cause the Sound-HOWTO only made alussion to ISA cards).
This is applicable to SuSE as well, cause I believe it is much better to learn things, especially in exciting *nix world, to things the hard way.
Thanks alot,
Raúl
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:59:12PM +0100, Christian Klippel wrote:
hi,
i have the sblive running here fine, but not with alsa .... to get it working, do the following : in ther kernel configuration, activate sound support as module get the latest driver from creative, compile and install it, and then just do a "depmod -a", thats how it worked for me the last time.
I searched high and low on Creatives site for a driver, but saw only ones for Windows, can you give a hint where to find them ? Thanks. -- Regards Cliff
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 November 2001 09:23 am, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:59:12PM +0100, Christian Klippel wrote:
hi,
i have the sblive running here fine, but not with alsa .... to get it working, do the following : in ther kernel configuration, activate sound support as module get the latest driver from creative, compile and install it, and then just do a "depmod -a", thats how it worked for me the last time.
I searched high and low on Creatives site for a driver, but saw only ones for Windows, can you give a hint where to find them ? Thanks.
I believe its http://opensource.creative.com it is indeed that (tested it whilst typing this). Matt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE74YzyWER6riTj1jIRAiJgAKCMU0GR8DaPLqGXZc3VYLytafSzSgCaA8Gf 4KB2+1qG+Ikz115ZOCCTCl8= =QvSj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
At 09:57 AM 11/1/2001 -0800, you wrote:
On Thursday 01 November 2001 09:23 am, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
I believe its http://opensource.creative.com it is indeed that (tested it whilst typing this).
It is. While we're on the SBLive! topic I have some questions about mine. I have the SBLive Platinum. It actually works much better in SuSE 7.1 and 7.2 then in Win2k with the drivers that were on the CD (which I find very amusing) but I'm having trouble with the LiveDrive (The extra plugs that fit in a drive bay so you can hook up stuff at the front of your computer). I got the card so that I could plug my Guitar (and sometimes I borrow a bass from a friend) into the front 1/4 line-in/mic-in, and also I can plug my studio headphones into the Headphone jack in the front. I haven't had a chance to test the line-in yet, but when I use the front headphone jack, the only sound that is produced is what comes through the PCM or whatver it's called - on Windows it's generically called "wave out". I.e. Wave files, Ogg Vorbis, MP3s, the KDE startup sound, anything that's a file on the computer comes to the front headphone output, but audio from CDs never comes out the LiveDrive headphone jack -- it's only played through the main speakers. Same for the voice microphone, which I'm currently using on my guitar until I can get a good pickup -- it comes out of Line-out1 in the back (that's the primary 1/8 speaker jack), but does not emerge from the headphone-out in the LiveDrive. The humorous thing is the LiveDrive doesn't work at all in Windows :-) Still I find that very confusing, it's like it's some internal routing problem, or something. Is this a bug or is it normal? Could someone that has a SBLive! Platinum please hook up to the front head phone jack and see if you cat get CD, line-in or mic-in audio to emerge from the LiveDrive? I'd really appreciate it. Let me know if you had to do anything special. Thanks.
Matt
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:57:03AM -0800, StarTux wrote:
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On Thursday 01 November 2001 09:23 am, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:59:12PM +0100, Christian Klippel wrote:
hi,
i have the sblive running here fine, but not with alsa .... to get it working, do the following : in ther kernel configuration, activate sound support as module get the latest driver from creative, compile and install it, and then just do a "depmod -a", thats how it worked for me the last time.
I searched high and low on Creatives site for a driver, but saw only ones for Windows, can you give a hint where to find them ? Thanks.
I believe its http://opensource.creative.com it is indeed that (tested it whilst typing this).
Yes, got it, compiled installed, and working :) -- Regards Cliff
On Thursday 01 November 2001 09:08, Briggs, N. - Neil - wrote:
Dear Raul
I have read your email, as you consider configuring Alsa with SUSE easy, could you please help me set up my Suse 7.1 professional edition to work with a sound blaster live card. Because for the life of me I have been unable to get this to work. I have mailed the list a couple of times with my problems and have recieved no help with my problems.
I installed SuSE 7.2 on my new athlon 5 months ago and tried in vain to get alsa to work with my SB Live! card. So, I resorted to my old friend, OSS, from 4Front Technologies. It costs $20 but it works beautifully. JLK
If you could send me the steps that are required to be taken to get Suse to recognise and use my sound card and configure Alsa, I will follow your suggested steps and email you with any problems I encounter with any of the steps.
6 months without sound and getting quickly fed up with Linux. It's multi media capabilites are poor.
Many thanks in advance Neil
-----Original Message----- From: Raul Gutierrez Segales [mailto:oxford@campoalto.edu.py] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:02 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] (OT) Sound in other distros
One of the greatest things about SuSE & YaST with the use of Alsa is the easyness of configuring sound under Linux (although sometimes this can be a little confusing ... :-))
The thing is, what if you have to configure a PCI soundcard (on-board in the case that I have to face now) in Slackware for example, that is a distro that doesnt have any friendly tool and you have to do it the old-fashion way... Would you go for alsa or you would use the kernel support for sound (if the kernel supports PCI-sound, since I am not sure cause the Sound-HOWTO only made alussion to ISA cards).
This is applicable to SuSE as well, cause I believe it is much better to learn things, especially in exciting *nix world, to things the hard way.
Thanks alot,
Raúl
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* jk05308 (jk05308@alltel.net) [011101 14:50]: ->On Thursday 01 November 2001 09:08, Briggs, N. - Neil - wrote: ->> Dear Raul ->> ->> I have read your email, as you consider configuring Alsa with SUSE ->> easy, could you please help me set up my Suse 7.1 professional ->> edition to work with a sound blaster live card. Because for the ->> life of me I have been unable to get this to work. I have mailed ->> the list a couple of times with my problems and have recieved no ->> help with my problems. -> ->I installed SuSE 7.2 on my new athlon 5 months ago and tried in ->vain to get alsa to work with my SB Live! card. So, I resorted to my ->old friend, OSS, from 4Front Technologies. It costs $20 but it works ->beautifully. Jerry, Give it another go. Make sure you have the alsa pkgs installed. I went and bought an SBlive 512 the other day for my office workstation because the POS AC97 was just a big ole pain in the arse. I popped the SBLive in and ran YaST2 ..about 10 minutes later I had working sound and YaST2 even installed the midi sound fonts for me off the CD..it asked me for the CD :) Try it again...it does work. -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal" -AE
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