Linux-Hardware Digest #136, Volume #10 Sun, 2 May 99 01:13:32 EDT
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Re: SoundBlaster PCI128 problems (Harold Hotham)
Re: Creative has just posted SB-Live Linux drivers! (Jim Brooks)
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Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 14:30:26 +1000
From: Harold Hotham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster PCI128 problems
Hi,
Try www.opensound.com otherwise you will probally need to upgrade to
kernel 2.2.*
Harold
Salman Ahmed wrote:
>
> I am running RedHat 5.2 w/ kernel 2.0.36. sndconfig gives an error message
> "Unable to play audio: sox: Can't open output file /dev/dsp : operation not
> supported by device".
>
> I tried to setup the card using the ALSA drivers (following the instructions in
> the
> ALSA mini-HOWTO) , but that didn't work either.
>
> After building and installing the alsa-driver package, I went and tried to
> compile
> the alsa-lib package. When running "./configure" on the alsa-lib package, at the
>
> end the configure script complained that "alsa-driver package must be installed
> first"!! But I thought I had already done that when I had installed the
> alsa-driver
> package (and that seemingly went without any problems).
>
> Can anyone offer detailed instructions on howto setup the PCI128 card
> without having to recompile the kernel ?
>
> Do I have to upgrade to one of the 2.2.x kernels to be able to setup the PCI128
> ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Salman S. Ahmed
> ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
>
> Remove the "nospam." portion from my email address
> to reply to this message.
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Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 00:20:18 +0000
From: Jim Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative has just posted SB-Live Linux drivers!
Jim Zubb wrote:
>
> Rich Powell wrote:
> >
> > They have just posted Linux drivers on their web site. I have just
> > downloaded them and am about to try them out. Whoa baby - sound!
> >
> > http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/
> >
> > Rich
>
> No MIDI.
xplaymidi does not work for me also (complains about /dev/sequencer).
Though I used insmod -f in order to stay with kernel 2.2.7.
But kudos to Creative for at least trying.
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