Sound blaster live and onboard sound
Kaarthik Sivakumar
kaarthik at comcast.net
Sat Jan 3 10:12:08 PST 2004
On Sat January 3 2004 10:26 am, Claude Buisson wrote:
> Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > [...]
>
> Your card is a Dell-specific SoundBlaster Live! CT0200. Note:
> > none3 at pci1:6:0: class=0x040100 card=0x10031102 chip=0x00061102
>
> ^^^^^^^^
> instead of 00021102
>
> > vendor = 'Creative Labs'
> > device = 'emu10k1x Soundblaster Live! 5.1'
>
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> > class = multimedia
> > subclass = audio
> >
> >
> > none4 at pci1:6:1: class=0x098000 card=0x10031102 chip=0x70041102
>
> ^^^^^^^^
> instead of 70021102
>
> > vendor = 'Creative Labs'
> > device = 'SBLive! Value Gameport'
>
> ^^^^^
>
> > class = input device
>
> which is NOT an emu10k1. Dell says it has a "software accelerated" DSP,
> needing a special driver à la Winmodem...
I have never heard of such a thing until now. I thought that SB Live! would be
the same everywhere and got it. So if I were to get a SB Live! from a store,
is there anything specific I have to look out for on the shrink-wrap to
distinguish the hardware and software accelerated stuff? The regular SB Live!
claims the emu10k1 chip as does this. Or does the 'x' after emu10k1 make the
difference?
>
> The only known (to me) working driver for this card is the non free OSS
> driver from 4Front. I tried it, but found it simpler to buy a real Sound
> Blaster Live!
Yeah, I think I will stick to getting a real SBLive! myself. Until then I am
going to experiment with the onboard sound to see how that works.
Thanks
kaarthik
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