On Sunday 30 September 2001 04:55 pm, Matt Harrison wrote: > Hi All, > Well, I spend 2 days off and on downloading 8.1, but I got it and it > installed almost flawlessly. Except for a problem that has plagued me > since I bought my PC. I have a BlasterPC from Empac, and it uses a > motherboard pretty much designed by Creative Labs. My DVD drive that is > in my box (my CDRW is USB external) has the audio cable running through > the digital port instead of the analog due to the fact this board is > based off of having the SoundBlaster Live 5.1 Platinum integrated into > it. When I try to play music CD's under Mandrake using CD Player, it > recognizes the CD drive and it recognizes the fact there is an audio cd > in the drive, but no matter how I set the mixers throughout KDE, I still > get no sound. Any ideas on what I can do to make mandrake be able to > play digital audio, or do I have to hook up the analog cable as well. > Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me. > > MH
You might benefit from the emu10k1-tools-0.9.2-3mdk. It's on rpmfind now and read the README. Excerpt: GETTING STARTED =============== The driver may need to be configured appropriately for your card/speaker combo. The driver should work out-of-the-box for most situations unless the following apply: -You want bass/treble control -You have a '5.1' card with digital speakers -You want to use AC3 Pass-through -You're the type of person who likes to learn and customize things. -You want to enable an input on your Live-drive or digital add-on card -s
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