SB Live! 24-bit

SB Live! 24-bit

[Tony Senerchia]

Hi,

I heard something about using this card (SB Live! 24-bit) with the
audigyls driver cause it uses a P17.

I also read somewhere else that there was a .diff file to pacth the
alsa-kernel, but I only found a .diff for audigy-value.

I wanted to know if this card is supported now, and if so what it
takes to get it working and when I can expect a driver to be included
in alsa.

I compiled alsa-1.0.7 (from 11/11/2004), and though it now gives me
the option to use the card, the card is still an "unknown device:
0007" to the computer and I always get an error that no device was
found (thus no dsp). I'm using a 2.6.7 kernel in slackware
("current").

Thanks for all your help!!!

Tony Senerchia


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Re: SB Live! 24-bit

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Friday 10 December 2004 20:50, Tony Senerchia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I heard something about using this card (SB Live! 24-bit) with the
> audigyls driver cause it uses a P17.
>
> I also read somewhere else that there was a .diff file to pacth the
> alsa-kernel, but I only found a .diff for audigy-value.
>
> I wanted to know if this card is supported now, and if so what it
> takes to get it working and when I can expect a driver to be included
> in alsa.
>
> I compiled alsa-1.0.7 (from 11/11/2004), and though it now gives me
> the option to use the card, the card is still an "unknown device:
> 0007" to the computer and I always get an error that no device was
> found (thus no dsp). I'm using a 2.6.7 kernel in slackware
> ("current").
>
> Thanks for all your help!!!
>
> Tony Senerchia

Found this:

<quote>-------------------------------------------------------
Re: [Alsa-user] SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit SB4010
From: 
James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
To: 
John Bailo <jabailo@earthlink.net>
CC: 
Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Date: 
12/04/04 20:20

John Bailo wrote:
> It looks like there are new sound blaster drivers ready for Creative 
Labs -- 
> none of the entries in the list are red any more.
> 
> 
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Creative_Labs#matrix
> 
> Questions:
> 
> (1) My card is a Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit (SB4010) which is not 
represented 
> in the list.   I think someone mentioned that it does not use the 
emu10k1 but 
> the audiglys driver.   Is that the right driver for the SB4010 ?
> 

See http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=audigyls for details.

Summary: alsa does not currently support the SB0410, but alsa drivers 
are available if you are willing to compile your own kernel and 
alsa-drivers.
</quote>-----------------------------------------------------------

HTH,

    -Frans



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Re: SB Live! 24-bit

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 21:32 +0100, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
> Summary: alsa does not currently support the SB0410, but alsa drivers 
> are available if you are willing to compile your own kernel and 
> alsa-drivers.

You need to use ALSA CVS and the snd-ca0106 driver.  The "Audigy LS"
driver was the old name for it.

This was just checked into CVS so you should expect to hit some bugs.

Lee



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SB Live! 24-bit

[Tony Senerchia]

First, thanks for having built a driver for this card! I can finally
hear something!

Second, what I hear is not what it should be. I don't know what to
give as a bug report, but I installed the alsa-cvs and it used the
ca0106 (is that right?) for the card. The sound works, but it is more
than 1x when played in XMMS. I used XMMS because it gave me the most
options for configuration of the alsa driver.

The device hw(0;1) seemed to work the best, the others (up to hw(0;3)
I think) seemed to only give output to one speaker or not at all. I
don't think the bass is getting anything (I can't hear anything).

Is it possible to get some sort of configuration support for some of
the options on this card (like how many speakers to use)?

Really, thanks a lot for what you've done already!

Patiently yours,

Tony Senerchia


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