Enabling sound?

Greg Groth ggroth at gregs-garage.com
Mon Jul 24 13:55:29 UTC 2006


 > I got a SoundBlaster Live! because it was listed as a known working
 > piece of hardware.  Apparently this is a newer version of the board that
 > isn't supported yet.  Getting it to work is becoming a PITA beyond what
 > I have the time and willpower to put in right now.
 >
 > Is there a piece of sound hardware I can just run down to CompUSA and
 > buy, that I can drop in here and get this thing working with *today*?

Just ran into this getting MythTV running on Gentoo.  In ALSA, it seems 
the new soundblaster cards don't use the emu10k1 driver, they use the 
ca0106 driver.  Don't know if this exists for FreeBSD or not.  In my 
case, the ca0106 driver produced static and a hint of something that 
sounded like sound.  I gave up, and stole an older soundblaster from 
another system I had.

Best regards,
Greg Groth


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