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SoundBlaster Live Drivers from Creative.

Post by Adam Mclea » Fri, 06 Aug 1999 04:00:00



Greetings,

    I recently installed the Creative Labs Drivers for my SoundBlaster
Live Card under Red Hat Linux 6.0.  The main reason I want sound support
under Linux is to playback my MP3 library.  I am using the latest
version of XMMS, and am getting some brutal skipping / chattering
whenever there is minor HDD access.  I've increased the buffer on XMMS
to no avail.  After sending feedback to the XMSS development team they
basically said 'Creative can't make drviers'.

    I was wondering if anyone has installed the SBlive card NOT using
the SoundBlaster drivers provided by Creative.  If so, could you outline
the steps you took (I'm not a novice, and not quite a power user, just
average for now).

Thanks in advance!

Adam McLean.

 
 
 
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SoundBlaster Live Drivers from Creative.

Post by Jim Zub » Fri, 06 Aug 1999 04:00:00



> Greetings,

>     I recently installed the Creative Labs Drivers for my SoundBlaster
> Live Card under Red Hat Linux 6.0.  The main reason I want sound support
> under Linux is to playback my MP3 library.  I am using the latest
> version of XMMS, and am getting some brutal skipping / chattering
> whenever there is minor HDD access.  I've increased the buffer on XMMS
> to no avail.  After sending feedback to the XMSS development team they
> basically said 'Creative can't make drviers'.

>     I was wondering if anyone has installed the SBlive card NOT using
> the SoundBlaster drivers provided by Creative.  If so, could you outline
> the steps you took (I'm not a novice, and not quite a power user, just
> average for now).

The Creative drivers are the only ones that work with the
soundcard, so your stuck with them.  I have not had too much
trouble with them myself.  What is your hardware setup?
Mainly the motherboard chipset, if your IDE drivers are not
setup to use DMA you can get a lot of problems, if you have
a non-intel chipset you will most likely have to recompile
your kernel and add the experimental chipset drivers.  

--
Jim Zubb


 
 
 
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Hi hi hi,

I've dabbled with Linux before and am about to do so again.  Before I
do, though, I want to make sure I have everything in order.  

So while I was reading up on various things, I found out that there
are several different sound drivers.  It seems to me that I can choose
to use ALSA, OSS, or OpenAL(?) which Creative has developed a driver
for.  

My question is, which would be best?  I'm not a gamer and I have a
stand-alone DVD player so the most sound I'll need is playing MP3s.
Which one of these has the lowest CPU overhead?  Will any of them be
incompatible with some or all programs?

It's all so confusing ;-)  Thanks for your help.  Could you send a
reply to my email address too?  I don't read this ng too often.

Thanks again,

Dave

dloose at double-you pee eye dot ee dee you

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