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by **Stephen Marl** » Tue, 13 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Quote:
>Can you tell me how did you get the CMI8330 working in Linux?

By far the easiest way is to download the commercial OSS driver from
<www.opensound.com/linux.html>. I installed it for kernel 2.0.34 on
SuSE 5.2 with absolutely no problems. The KDE media tools now work
really well and I'm really happy with the setup. I didn't even need to
rebuild the kernel. Just run the install program and follow its
instructions.

The downside is that you only get 7 days evalution and then it's $20 for
the full license. I'm debating whether to pay the $20, buy an
alternative supported cheap soundcard or to attempt to get the CMI8330
working with OSS Free (which sounds like a lot of hassle). I must say
that at the moment the $20 license seems like the easy and lazy option.

BTW I've only been running Linux for 1 week (I got SuSE 5.2 free with a
magazine) and sound was the last thing on my list to crack after dual
booting with NT, running with KDE + KDM, and getting PPP to work. I am
now the happy owner a very slick looking/sounding and fast running
system. It's so good that I will now only use NT when I really need to
(like programming for work or learning more horrible win32 api's).

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by **Jerry Lynn Krep** » Tue, 13 Oct 1998 04:00:00

> hi
> i had the same problem. i used the OSS drivers and it started working.
> unfortunately, those drivers aren't free and i haven't looked at ossfree
> yet. but you can check ir out at www.4front-tech.com/ossfree
> -rohit

It isn't free but it is cheap!

That is something I've noticed with a lot of high quality software
available to Linux. A couple of days ago I dl'd CodeForge, a $30
version control system. I'm the PVCS admin where I work. I wish we
were on Linux boxes so I could use CF there.

I've also noticed that a lot of high quality software is free, netscape,
sci-lab, varkon, blender, staroffice, etc. Some of the later versions
of the software become commerical but, like CF, at reasonable rates. A
15 seat license for PVCS cost the state over $10K, but CF would cost
only 1.3K.

Either way, Linux users are big winners.

by **<kkrea..** » Fri, 13 Nov 1998 04:00:00

Do a:
prompt# ls -l /dev/cdrom
If the link points back to /dev/cdrom, there's your problem.
(Slack3.5 comes with that bug, /dev/cdrom pointing to /dev/cdrom)
To fix it, do:
prompt# rm /dev/cdrom
prompt# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
(assuming /dev/hdc is your cdrom).

HTH

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Kevin Kreamer

> Hello,
> Iam having the same problem with my 6 speed cd and slackware3.5. Everything
> worked fine under slackware3.0 as well as 3.4 through the updated kernel. Now
> samba does not connect to my windows box nor will my cd play audio cd's. My
> system reports that there is no device /dev/cdrom which workman expects.
> I am greateful for any help that I may receive. Thank you.

>> hi
>> i had the same problem. i used the OSS drivers and it started working.
>> unfortunately, those drivers aren't free and i haven't looked at ossfree
>> yet. but you can check ir out at www.4front-tech.com/ossfree
>> -rohit

>> > Hi,
>> > Can you tell me how did you get the CMI8330 working in Linux?
>> > Thanks.
>> > Regards,
>> > Joseph

>> > > Hi,
>> > > I have installed Slackware 3.5 on my Pentium machine and everything wor=
>> ks
>> > > fine, except for playing audio CDs. The IDE CD-ROM is OK, as I can read=
>> data
>> > > CDs and even listen audio CDs through the headphones. The sound device =
>> (a
>> > > CMI8330 PnP audio chip), after being properly configured by the isapnp =
>> tools,
>> > > also works well as I can hear *.au files (e.g. 'cat *.au > /dev/audio')=
>> > > But when I use an audio CD player such as WorkMan, xplaycd or whatever,=
>> the

:> > > sound from the speakers comes almost inaudible. Using a mixer tool to a=

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>> > > the sound volume, as suggested by some people, does not help (but it do=
>> es,
>> > > regarding *.au files).
>> > > What is intriguing is that the whole thing works fine under Windows 95.=
>> So
>> > > it can't be the cable connection between the CD output and the sound de=
>> vice.
>> > > Anyone who had a similar problem could give me some help ?
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Luiz

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