Re: ALSA vs. OSS

[Mark Borgerding <mark@borgerding.net>]

Me too.  I cannot get ALSA working on my SB Live.

If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion: Maybe the developer in
charge of ALSA's e-mu driver could work with us poor unfortunates.
There may be some commonality between our systems that causes this
(besides the sound blaster live).

My system:
Sound: SBLive Value
Redhat 7.3 (w/ piecemeal recompiles & upgrades)
Kernel: 2.6.1
CPU: Athlon XP 2100+
Mobo: ASUS (I think it's A7V333. I can confirm this later.)


-- Mark "runnin' dirty and deprecated" Borgerding



Heinz Ulrich Stille wrote:

>On Monday 19 January 2004 19:21, Travis Morgan wrote:
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>>I have a soundblaster Live Value card. I can no longer control the
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>I also have a SB Live!, and it doesn't work with ALSA at all - the AC97
>codec doesn't load. I haven't taken the time to track it down as it does
>work just fine with OSS (under SMP at that).
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>>output level through my digital out. With OSS my PCM volume used to
>>affect both the headphone jack and the digital out. With ALSA it affects
>>only the headphone jack.
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>That's a purely firmware thing with this card; you should just have to
>load the right patches. I don't know whether there is a loader utility
>for alsa, though. Perhaps the old utils will work?
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>Anyway, even if it's not working for me at the moment, it's still the
>superior architecture; just wait until the bugs affecting your specific
>situation are ironed out and userland utilities are available...
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>MfG, Ulrich
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