My Sound Blaster Live! Value didn't work at first and no matter what I
tried it just refused.
My problem was simple however... I had "plug and play OS" set to "YES"
in my bios. I set it to "NO" and it worked first time on the next
boot-up.
On Tue, 15 May 2001 16:44:29 -0500 Alexander Rhoads
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>Okay, I know this has been asked a million times, but here goes: How
do I
>get my SoundBlaster Live! Value card working in Mandrake 8? I've
searched
>the archives and numerous very helpful web pages, but there's got to
be a
>simpler, better way to get this working.
>
>Running HardDrake (aka Mandrake Control Center 0.61) shows one
soundcard
>entry for "Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000." Two entries were
showing up
>(one for the SB card and one for the onboard VIA chipset sound, but
I've
>since disabled the onboard sound in BIOS). The kernel module showing
is
>"snd-card-emu10k1" so that seems correct.
>
>Oddly, I do hear the opening KDE "jingle" when KDE opens up on boot,
but
>absolutely nothing from then on in any app. When CDPlayer starts up,
the
>disc spins up, CDDB finds the album title and tracks, but no sound.
(I know
>the device works, 'cause that's how I burned the ISO's for LM8). :)
>
>This is probably bad news: running sndconfig as su gets nothing but
"
>command not found."
>
>Where do I start to track this puppy down? Thanks in advance. Part
of the
>problem that this newbie has run into on this is that there's so much
>information on configuring sound cards that I'm not sure what the
most
>efficient order of tracking down the problem is.
>
>Thanks in advance for helping me sort it all out.
>
>Alexander Rhoads
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>West Des Moines, Iowa
>
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