Sounblaster Live Card

[Ash]

Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> Derrick Edwards wrote:
> 
>>     That sucks because it says on the box "Creative Sound Blaster 
>> Live! 24-bit". Is there a better way of picking one?
> 
> 
> The sblive driver oly supports rather early models of SB Live and SB 
> Audigy cards. Since Creative keeps revising their hardware rather 
> rapidly, it might not be easy finding hardware that works with the 
> available drivers. Usually Creative uses the older revisions of their 
> chips in the budget-products, so I'd start looking there.
> 
> 

I may not make friends for suggestion this, but the OpenSound drivers 
have worked nicely for me. I have an older (i.e. natively supported) SB 
LIVE! card, but was having minor problems with it after upgrading to 
5.3. Being short on time, I downloaded the appropriate driver from 
http://www.opensound.com/. It works nicely, and allows me to use 
features of the card that I wouldn't be able to utilize with the native 
snd_emu10k1(4) module.

The latest release of OpenSound drivers are free for non-commercial use, 
with a caveat: Supposedly some sort of message will be played on your 
card when it's idle. I have no idea what the sound is, as my sound card 
is never idle thanks to xmms.

Good luck,
-Ash