Jeffrey Froman (jeffrey@fro.man) writes:
> Sterling Haas wrote:
>
>> I also have Slack 10.0 with a SoundBlaster Live. I wasn't at all
>> surprised when, after installing the OS, the sound wouldn't work: that's
>> par for the course for ALSA. I therefore removed ALSA and rebuilt my
>> kernel with OSS support. Everything has worked perfectly ever since.
>
> I have a SoundBlaster Live as well, and it has worked perfectly with every
> distribution of Slackware since 7.0. When Slackware switched to ALSA, it
> continued to work without incident, and sound quality improved.
>
> Jeffrey

I wondered about that myself. When I installed 7 back in January on this
computer that has Soundblaster Live, I seem to recall having to configure
things for the soundcard. I can't recall what happened when I installed 9.1
about a week later. I know when I put 10 on two weeks ago, I didn't have to
do anything to get the soundcard working.

Michael

Robert D. De Mars wrote:

> rintek wuuk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had the same problem with this soundcard when i was using kde-3.3
>> (current-testing)
>> When i downgraded to 3.2.3 i didn`t have any sound problems anymore.
>> ( i personaly don`t use modules)
>
> Should I recompile the kernel with the emu10k1 driver built
> into the kernel perhaps? Instead of using the module?
>

Hi Robert

I suggest you grep the 2.6.8.1 kernel source and
compile everything in you need.Don`t use modules.

Disable soundcard 0 and don`t compile any OSS into
your kernel.

Fireup alsamixer,setup your settings, unmute,escape,
and store your settings: alsactl store

good luck :-)

Age

Robert D. De Mars wrote:


>
> I actually have to do a alsamixer -c1 to access the SB Live
> card. No matter what I seem to try I always get ths error
> when I start KDE:
> Sound server informational message:
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device: default can't be opened for playback (No such device)
> The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
>
Hi Robert,

Which arts version are you using ?

Age

rintek wuuk wrote:
> Hi Robert
>
> I suggest you grep the 2.6.8.1 kernel source and
> compile everything in you need.Don`t use modules.
>
> Disable soundcard 0 and don`t compile any OSS into
> your kernel.
>
> Fireup alsamixer,setup your settings, unmute,escape,
> and store your settings: alsactl store
>
> good luck :-)
>
> Age

Hi Age.

I will give the 2.6.8.1 a try, and take the advice you
mentioned above. I'll let you know how it goes.

Many Thanks,

Robert De Mars
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rintek wuuk wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Which arts version are you using ?
>
> Age
>

Hello again. I am using arts version 1.2.3.

Kind Regards,

Robert De Mars
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Robert D. De Mars wrote:

>
> I will give the 2.6.8.1 a try, and take the advice you
> mentioned above. I'll let you know how it goes.

#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=y

#
# Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
#
CONFIG_SND=y
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM=y
CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=y
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y
# CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY is not set
# CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS is not set
# CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS is not set
# CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set
# CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set

#
# Generic devices
#
# CONFIG_SND_DUMMY is not set
# CONFIG_SND_VIRMIDI is not set
# CONFIG_SND_MTPAV is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SERIAL_U16550 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_MPU401 is not set


CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1=y

Succes ;-)

Age

rintek wuuk wrote:
> Hi Robert
>
> I suggest you grep the 2.6.8.1 kernel source and
> compile everything in you need.Don`t use modules.
>

2.6.8.1 compiled, with no modules. Booted no prob.

> Disable soundcard 0 and don`t compile any OSS into
> your kernel.

Any ref to OSS I did not compile. There were a couple OSS
options in the Alsa options while I was configging. I
turned those off too. I hope that is correct.

How do I disable soundcard 0?

>
> Fireup alsamixer,setup your settings, unmute,escape,
> and store your settings: alsactl store
>
> good luck :-)
>
> Age
>
>

Many Thanks,

Robert De Mars
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Long. 93:18w
http://b-o-b.homelinux.com

rintek wuuk wrote:
> Robert D. De Mars wrote:
>
>
>>I will give the 2.6.8.1 a try, and take the advice you
>>mentioned above. I'll let you know how it goes.
>
>
> #
> # Sound
> #
> CONFIG_SOUND=y
>
> #
> # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
> #
> CONFIG_SND=y
> CONFIG_SND_TIMER=y
> CONFIG_SND_PCM=y
> CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=y
> CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=y
> CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y
> # CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY is not set
> # CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS is not set
> # CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS is not set
> # CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS is not set
> # CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set
> # CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set
>
> #
> # Generic devices
> #
> # CONFIG_SND_DUMMY is not set
> # CONFIG_SND_VIRMIDI is not set
> # CONFIG_SND_MTPAV is not set
> # CONFIG_SND_SERIAL_U16550 is not set
> # CONFIG_SND_MPU401 is not set
>
>
> CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1=y
>
> Succes ;-)
>
> Age
>

Hello again. Where exactly is the above config file located?

Thanks,

Robert De Mars
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Robert D. De Mars wrote:


>
> Hello again. Where exactly is the above config file located?
>

In the directory where you made your kernel config.

Age

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 03:05:12 +0000, Robert D. De Mars wrote:

<snip>
> snd-bt87x 4840 1

On mine, when this module is loaded it makes my SBLive card fail. I
wound up having to add it to /etc/hotplug/blacklist and using the
patch cord to hook up the sound from it to my SBLive card, and everything
now works great.

hth,
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