Re: Sound, sblive.
I emailed the linux-bugs@soundblaster or whatever it was, and they said that
new beta drivers for 2.2.10 would be coming out this week that would fix my
problems. I guess I'll have to wait until then.
That's the problem with propietary drivers :(
On 13-Jul-99 Kjetil Ødegaard wrote:
> * wim@netmaster.ca
>|
>| My sound has been working perfectly until a couple of days ago. My setup:
>| Soundblaster Live! with Creative's drivers, and kernel 2.2.10.
>|
>| I copied the sblive.o into the /lib/modules/2.2.10/misc directory,
>| loaded soundcore using modconf, and did a insmod -f sblive.o, and it
>| loaded fine. Now all I get is CD audio, and wav's and mp3's will
>| just play the 1st second and repeat that forever.
>
> Hm. I had the same problem when I first got my Live! (admittedly
> Value) card. It turns out the problem was in the chipset of my
> motherboard, an AOpen card. The chipset was by Via, and they have
> released a small executable (which they of course make you run under
> Windows 95 or the likes) which fixed it completely (on the board, it
> seems it's not just a software hack). If you scour the SBLive! FAQs
> at www.sblive.com you should be able to find it (I had to download it
> from Taiwan, though, and that took a while).
>
> If you can't locate it, tell me and I'll try to dig it up from
> somewhere.
>
> --
> Gravity brings me down.
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Wim Kerkhoff
wim@netmaster.ca
www.canadianhomes.net/wim
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