Shadrack Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 I'm looking at new sound cards (since my onboard one won't work w/ Linux). The SoundBlaster Live! is only 50 bucks and that is about my price range. How is it's compatibility w/ Linux? I'm interested in ALSA not OSS. Can you recommend another card? Thanks! -Nic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liebe Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 thats fine for pretty much everything. you dont need anything better unless youre an audiophile. the soundblaster audigy is great for the price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaKeY Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Yeah, soundblaster live is fine. Should be able to get it for less than 50 bucks though. Shop around.... for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal_dragen Veteran Posted March 15, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 15, 2004 Using a Soundblaster Live here with ALSA and experience no problems (even running XMMS, a game with sound, and using Teamspeak to talk to clanmates). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted March 16, 2004 Author Share Posted March 16, 2004 (edited) Grr...this is making me mad. Ok, first my onboard CMI8738 doesn't work, i get: "Can't grab IRQ 19" "snd-cmipci: probe of ....... failed with error -16" After messing with that for a few hours (after I messed w/ it in Mandrake 9.2 for weeks and didn't get anywhere), I go out and by an Audigy LS because it was only like 20 bucks more then the SB Live! Then I bring it home and find that there is NO support for it (or at least no support that is out of beta). so I take it back and pick up the SB Live!, plug it in. Linux finds the new hardware and sets it up. But I'm still getting no sound. Instead i get another case of: "EMU10K1_Audigy: probe of 0000:00:0a.0 failed with error -16" but no mention of an IRQ problem. Where do I go to look up these really informative errors like "error -16" Google doesn't seem to help. Alsa web page doesn't seem to help either. here is my modules.conf: -------------------------------------- probeall scsi_hostadapter imm ppa probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card 0 alias /dev/dsp sound-slot-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss --------------- Shall I post anything else? Any help would be REALLY appreciated. Thanks! -Nic Edited March 16, 2004 by nic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlas Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 "EMU10K1_Audigy: probe of 0000:00:0a.0 failed with error -16" well theres one problem. if you have a live plugged in it shouldn't be EMU10K1_Audigy, it should just be EMU10K1. That's my sound card. I have no problems with it. I can be in Enemy Territory, Teamspeak and have XMMS open. Using ALSA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted March 16, 2004 Author Share Posted March 16, 2004 hmm..ok I think i'm going to have to return the soundcard anyway because its already fried. When I was in windows, the phono plug was about half way out of the jack and so music was only coming out of one speaker. when i noticed i went behind the computer and plugged it in. After I did that all the sound that comes out of the card is jacked up. What a POS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuarterSwede Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 I can also vouch that the SBLive!'s jacks do wear out fairly quickly with use. My S/PDIF jack is going out for me (I've had it for about 5 or 6 years though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 I use alsa with the onboard intel audio. I find that its quality is very nice. But only when I have it hooked up to my stereo through the line out. The laptop speakers suck and I can fine tune the sound through my stereo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted March 16, 2004 Author Share Posted March 16, 2004 Update: Ok, I switched PCI slots for the SB Live 5.1 card and now the sound works in windows w/o noise *whew*. Now I tried to reinstall Mandrake 10 thinking that maybe the Audigy LS messed something up. But I'm still getting the exact same error message in my dmesg "EMU10K1_Audigy: probe of 0000:00:0a.0 failed with error -16" Is my system just doomed to not have sound in linux :( :( :( :( :'( Atlas: how do I not get the "_Audigy" part? The driver is set to EMU10K1 in modules.conf and from what I can tell in Harddrak. *sigh* -nic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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