Sound Blaster Live! External: Would like some help please

Jr Porkchop jrporkchop at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 28 21:22:17 PST 2006


Hello,
         I was wondering if anyone has had success with the 'Sound Blaster 
Live! 24-bit External' USB Audio card, I have managed to get it initialising 
but i can't get it to produce sound.  I have produced a custom kernel with 
Ariff Abdullah's patch for RELEASE 6.0 to the /usr/src and used:
device       sound    # Loads generic sound for headers
device       snd_uaudio  # Loads USB audio
in the kernel config.

The model number is SB0490.  I also run KDE 3.4 if that could be also 
causing a problem.

Here is some debug stuff as I have been reading a lot in this forum and is 
always asked for;
uname -a:
FreeBSD lees.resnet.gre.ac.uk 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 29 
03:50:23 GMT 2006     root at lees.resnet.gre.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SBLE  
i386

dmesgs:
uaudio0: Creative Technology SB Live! 24-bit External, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
uaudio0: audio rev 1.00
pcm0: <USB Audio> on uaudio0

cat /dev/sndstat:
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <USB Audio> at ?  (1p/1r/0v channels duplex default)
        mode 1:(output) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 44100Hz
        mode 2:(output) 2ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 44100Hz
        mode 3:(output) 4ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 44100Hz
        mode 4:(output) 4ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 44100Hz
        mode 5:(output) 6ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 44100Hz
        mode 6:(output) 6ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 44100Hz
        mode 7:(output) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 48000Hz
        mode 8:(output) 2ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 48000Hz
        mode 9:(output) 4ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 48000Hz
        mode 10:(output) 4ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 48000Hz
        mode 11:(output) 6ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 48000Hz
        mode 12:(output) 6ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 48000Hz
        mode 13:(output) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 96000Hz
        mode 14:(output) 2ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 96000Hz
        mode 1:(input) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 44100Hz
        mode 2:(input) 2ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 44100Hz
        mode 3:(input) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 48000Hz
        mode 4:(input) 2ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 48000Hz
        mode 5:(input) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 96000Hz
        mode 6:(input) 2ch, 24/24bit, pcm, 96000Hz

usbdevs -v:
Controller /dev/usb0:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000), 
VIA(0x0000), rev 1.00
port 1 addr 2: full speed, power 308 mA, config 1, SB Live! 24-bit 
External(0x3040), Creative Technology(0x041e), rev 1.00
port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb1:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000), 
VIA(0x0000), rev 1.00
port 1 powered
port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb2:
addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x0000), 
VIA(0x0000), rev 1.00
port 1 powered
port 2 powered
port 3 powered
port 4 powered
Controller /dev/usb3:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000), 
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
port 1 addr 2: low speed, power 100 mA, config 1, Microsoft 3-Button Mouse 
with IntelliEye(TM)(0x0040), Microsoft(0x045e), rev 3.00
port 2 powered

Any thing else needed for helping you diagnose my problem I am happy to do 
but I'm new Unix and I'm just looking for help.

Christopher Lees
University E-mail : lc423 at gre.ac.uk (if nobody likes sending to hotmail)




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