> > >Why doesn't the normal installation already include support for 4 > >speaker systems? It's not easy as a newbie to get it working within a > >short time. > >I installed the emu10k1-tools from creative and it started working after > >a reboot, but who would think that linux would need a reboot ;-) > > I patched /etc/rc.d/init.d/sound to run emu10k1-ctl if the file exists. > Probably you'd only want to run if the emu10k1 module was loaded, but I > assumed theonly reason you'd install this package is if you actually ahd > this card. > could you please tell me what your changes were to the file? Yes I was thinking, if the hardware setup was able to detect my emu10k1, they might as well offer me to setup four speaker support.
Thanks, Norm
