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Hi all,

I have a SoundBlaster Live and I am running Mandrake 8 (and no, I am not
new to Linux). I'm using the Alsa drivers for the soundcard.

If I check Alsa, /proc, HardDrake, KDE System Control ... whatever.
Everywhere my soundcard shows up as a Soundblaster Live. Expect for KMix.
It displays the card as a  "Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev A".

This is not really a problem since my sound works, but I would like to get
it fixed. It did display the card correctly briefly, but then I upgraded
the arts packages and my kernel and since then it's messed up. It also kind
of sucks because it doesn't allow me to modify all of the different outputs
the SBLive has.

Any ideas on how to fix this? Is there an arts config file somewhere??
Thanks for any help.

This (the name) appears to be a minor bug that started with the new
Kernel 2.4.x.

It appears to display the name of the actual chip rather than the card.

Configuration may be a Kernel issue with the actual driver.  

Do you have 2.4.5 installed?

Unless, of course, your card doesn't have the listed Cirrus chip, then
there is an actual problem.

JRT

Quote:

> This (the name) appears to be a minor bug that started with the new
> Kernel 2.4.x.

> It appears to display the name of the actual chip rather than the card.

> Configuration may be a Kernel issue with the actual driver.

> Do you have 2.4.5 installed?

> Unless, of course, your card doesn't have the listed Cirrus chip, then
> there is an actual problem.

> JRT

Yes, I am running kernel 2.4.5. Before that I ran the stock Mandrake kernel
which was 2.4.3 (I think).

I guess it could be that the SB Live has a Cirrus Logic chip but I kind of
doubt that. Anyway, I think I will just not worry about this for now. It's
not a big deal. I will see if it goes away in KDE2.2 or with a new kernel.

Thanks for the info.

- Frank