sound blaster live problems

[Sean McMahon]

To add to this, you either use alse or use os sound modules. That assumes you
use the 2.4 kernel.  If you use 2.6, it's alsa only.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruzos" <david at bruzos.org>
To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review
system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: sound blaster live problems


> I don't understand:
> Linux has very good support for the SB Live! soundcards.  I have never
> seen one that did not work.  Well, you know, there is a first time for
> everything.  Anyway, you might want to check if the emu10k driver is
> loaded.  Use the lsmod command to do this.  Try something like:
>
> # lsmod >output.txt
>
> Then, use your text editor of choice to read the file and see what it
> says.  I had you redirect the lsmod output to a file, because sometimes
> the list of modules does not fit on the screen.  Also, you could send
> the file to someone, so they can take a look at it.
>
> I don't use Debian, so I don't know what to use to configure sound cards
> properly.  However, the sound blaster should be configured already,
> unless your install has some kind of bug.
>
> Have you tried to play sound?  Try something like:
>
> # play some-file.wav
>
> If the command above gives an error, post it to the list...  Also, make
> sure your volumes are all the way up...  Do something like:
>
> # aumix -v 100
> # aumix -w 100
>
> and try to play sound again.
>
> Another thing:
> I think that you have to be part of the "audio" group to play audio in
> Debian.  So check what groups you are part of.  Do:
>
> # id
>
> this should tell you what groups you are part of...
>
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> David Bruzos
>
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:15:36PM -0600, Glenn at home wrote:
> > I have a sound blaster live on my Debian system.
> > It uses the emu10k1 driver, and Alsa does not recognize it, but Debian does.
> > I discovered this by doing lspci
> > but when I do alsaconf, it does not find it.
> > Is there a command like apt-get that I can do to update/install the EMU10k1
> > driver?
> > Thanks
> > Glenn
> >
> >
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