PCI 512 - more questions

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2000-01-09 17:33 UTC #0 lore raw

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Yes, the SB Live drivers will work - I have one, and it worked. You
need to
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download and compile the drivers from the creative page. I talked to them, and even them will say they don't know if it will work...
But I managed to put mine to work.
Get the drivers from http://www.opensource.creative.com.
Modify your conf.modules like this:
alias sound emu10k1
options emu10k1 joystick=0x200
Then:
"make depend"
"make clean"
"make"
"make install".
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Run:
"depmod -a"
"insmod soundcore"
"modprobe emu10k1".
More details? Go to this site:
http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme/index3.html
Okay... you seem to really know what you are doing, so I want to verify that I have done everything correctly. (Using SuSE 6.3 distribution)
(a) complied new kernel with built-in sound support,
but no OSS support
(b) added these two lines to /etc/modules.conf
alias sound emu10k1
options emu10k1 joystick=0x200
(c) compiled the emu10k1 drivers as you described
(d) added "modprobe sound" to me /etc/rc.d/boot.local
This gives me the following output when I do "cat /dev/sndstat"
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux forbin 2.2.13 #5 Sat Jan 8 05:44:03 PST 2000 i686 Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 0: Creative EMU10K1 (0.4)
Card config:
(Sound Blaster Live! at 0xcc00 irq 9)
Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster Live! (DUPLEX)
Synth devices:
Not supported by current driver
Midi devices:
0: Sound Blaster Live!
Timers:
0: System Clock

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Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster Live!
Does this all look and sound correct to you? I ask, because the audio applications that I have written using the OSS API no longer function correctly.

Well, everything seems to be working, but I don't have much experience, since I am a newbie to it. I use RedHat, but my SB Live won't work with X11Amp, only working with XMMS when playing MP3 - strange, to say the least. Some MIDI files I have also didn't play correctly, but that I suppose is because of the samples are used by the MIDI player (I suspect not all samples are available in my version of the MIDI player).

Have you tried posting your message to linux-newbie? If you list the messages you get when "cat /dev/sndstat", I am sure they will able to tell you if this means your board is really working.
Anyway, I don't know of OSS API, since my sugestion to post in the linux newbie list, because they may be of great help.

Good luck. I wish I might have helped you more