I had numerous problems with the Soundblaster Live under Linux. Normally the KDE sound servers either failed to start, produced no sound, or interfered with audio output on some applications.
I then remembered that the SBLIVE has a fixed sampling rate which caused problems for apps under Winblows... Sure enough changing the sampling rate to 48000 and setting KDE to autodetect permitted all the aRts and OSS applications to work properly. The sound servers always come up properly now too. BTW: The LM8.1 install configures the SBLIVE, but it doesn't seem to load all of the modules. Do an lsmod. You should remove all modules for RAM using rmmod, then reconfigure the soundblaster in the Control Panel. Reboot the system, (yeah really) and now do an lsmod, you'll see twice as many interrelated modules appear. Next bring up the AuMixer in KDE & set the volumes. Go into the KDE control panel and "save" the mixer settings. This modifies the ALSA-CTRL files to set the volumes upon bootup. Finally dump some sound fonts onto your system and load them with sfxload. I recommend http://www.thesoundsite.net/ for some wonderfull collections of freebee sound fonts. Set your midi in the KDE Control Panel (it finally works yeah!) Note: the SBLIVE under Linux cannot seem to load sound fonts greater than 32 megs properly. It actually loads them, but some voices do not sound. I assume that this is because the SFXLOAD program cannot handle the back switching required for larger fonts. To get the joystick port to work, add this to /etc/modules.conf "alias char-major-13 input" "above input joydev emu10k1-gp analog gameport" Then add "/sbin/modprobe joydev" Into /etc/rc.local There probably is another way of doing this, but this works fine for me. BTW: Anyway, hope this helps... -JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sevatio |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 4:21 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Nathan A. Smith |Subject: Re: [expert] Alsa and SoundBlaster Live! | | |Nathan, | |Sorry it took so long to reply. I just found this email. I'm |not an expert |but will try to explain... The aRts is a part of KDE. It's |mainly for KDE |related software and KDE sounds. XMMS has the option of using |aRts instead |of OSS but I would just stick with OSS. OSS and aRts can run |at the same |time. You can configure it by running KDE Control Center. Then go to |Sound -> Sound Server. | |Sevatio |
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