I'll give your suggestions a try, however as I said previously I'm going to wait for 9.0 to go gold.
Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] RC3 Bugs (second try) > On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Alan Hughes wrote: > > > I originally fiddled with the mixer settings, volume and just about > > everything else. Nothing worked, nada, just the big silence. Switching over > > to the audigy (sp?) driver (which I understand is OSS) and everything worked > > perfectly immediately. > > > Assuming you use analog speakers on rear channel: > > Try again, use alsamixer or alsamixergui, mute the very last channel > (analog output jack), increase Wave surround volume. > Does it work now? > > Easier say: plug your speakers into front channel. > > Danny > PS: the audigy driver is not really ment of a sblive, but will work. > > > > My box is a dual P-III running the SMP kernel, vanilla RC3 with the > > exception that I put the latest initscripts RPM on (USB problems as > > previously reported here). > > > > I plan some more fiddling, but not until after 9.0 goes gold - I've got some > > other things to do, including educating the wife on Linux so that she can > > start to teach people at work. > > > > Alan > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 1:26 PM > > Subject: Re: [Cooker] RC3 Bugs (second try) > > > > > > > On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Alan Hughes wrote: > > > > > > > Sorted it out last night, although I use HardDrake to set the OSS > > driver. I > > > > think that ALSA just does not support SoundBlaster Live properly (along > > with > > > I disagree, because it works fine for some other people. > > > David may say it doesn't work but that is only because he gets artifacts > > > on his specific systems. > > > ALSA drivers work fine on most SBLives. But there are a few different > > > kinds, and YMMV. Some people like ALSA better, because it supports more > > > features and is the best maintained. I hope David will report the > > > artifacts to alsa-devel, so they are fixed in the next version. > > > > > > Alan, it would be better to figure out why it was not working on your > > > setup, because you did not really explain. If it was that you did not > > > hear sone on your rear channel than it is a mixer configuration issue, > > > which I hoped would be fixed, but you can always manually set your mixer > > > correct. > > > > > > Danny > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
