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Soundblaster 64 or 128 PCI with Linux
Applies to
SuSE Linux: Versions 6.0 to 6.1
Kernel: Versions since 2.2.0
Request:
A Creative Labs Soundblaster PCI 64 or Soundblaster PCI 128 has to be
installed under SuSE Linux. These Soundcards are equipped with soundchips
Ensoniq ES1370 or ES1371.
You need:
- Kernel 2.2.5 or higher, SuSE Linux 6.0-owners can update directly
from our SuSE FTP Server
.
- An audio mixer (e.g. smix, package "smix", series "snd").
- Speakers or headphones.
Note: This soundcards don't support neither the device
/dev/sndstat
nor direct output (for example with 'cat')
through /dev/audio
. The corresponding references in the
manual are for this cards not applicable.
Procedure:
- Read in the user manual the chapter 'Linux machines and hardware -
Soundcards'.
- Build the card in the computer ;-)
Check out with which sound chip is the card equipped, if it's ES1370 or
ES1371.
- Edit the file
/etc/conf.modules
. Approx. in the line 28
begins the Soundcard modules configuration. After the comments, change the
lines
alias char-major-14 off
alias sound off
alias midi off
to
# alias char-major-14 off
# alias sound off
# alias midi off
Later on (approx. line 100) delete the following commentar signs, this is:
# alias char-major-14 es1370
will be:
alias char-major-14 es1370
- If you have a ES1371 chip on your soundcard, proceed analogous; use
the following entry for the module
es1371.o
.
- Now start the mixer. If you type in (as root)
lsmod
it should
give the following output:
Module Size Used by
...
es1370 21748 1 (autoclean)
soundcore 2084 4 (autoclean) [es1370]
- If it doesn't work, please try again after typing in the command
depmod -a
.
- You can try now playing some sounds with `play WAV-DATEI' (package sox,
series snd). Please check the mixer configuration: if all the channels are
turned down, the sound driver won't be very useful ;-)

See also:

Keywords: SOUNDBLASTER, PCI, 64, 128, CREATIVE, LABS

Categories:
Sound

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SDB-cg_sbpci64, Copyright SuSE GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany
- Version: 23. Apr 1999
SuSE GmbH - Last generated: 07. Oct 1999 16:37:06
by maddin
with sdb_gen 1.00.0