On Tuesday 30 December 2003 23:08, Matt Bleiweiss wrote: > I have a Soundblaster Live Value that came with my Dell on the > machine that I use now. It works just fine. I just had to change > the driver that Mandrake selected to the other one. Here is the > reply from Dennis that helped me out: > > "Ah, sound, it is still a bit of a problem in linux. However the > Soundblaster seems to be well supported so from console su and type > in from the root prompt "harddrake" to get into the gui. Select > your sblive by clicking on the icon and then in the lower right > click on the configure button. You should see two selections one > may be snd-emu10k1 and the other the just emu10k1. > Mine works best using the emu10k1. Try whichever is not shown on > the selection bar when it first pops up. HTH" > > That worked out just fine for me. > > --Matt
Matt, the difference is that his appears to be an emu10k1X card, which I understand to have been a cut-down card specifically built for Dell, non-standard. That's not to say that all Dell machines have that card, but from all I have read, if you do have one you have a problem. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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