[Alsa-user] Re: sound blaster live!

[Holland H. <elo...@pa...>]

On Sunday 01 July 2001 04:59 pm, you wrote:
> Whatever email you get about the sound blaster live
> please forward them to me.  I ran into your porblem
> before I am not sure how I corrected it though.  One
> thing I noticed you did wrong was
> --with-snd-card=emu10k1.  It is
> --with-snd-card-emu10k1.  after ./configure I did the
> make then make install.  Make sure you have sound
> support in your kernel.  Do not select anyother
> modules for sound.  after installing make sure to run
> the program ./snddevices in the alsa-driver directory.
>  make sure to go to /etc/src/linux and type make
> modules then make modules_install.  I had to do this
> again.
>
> Jeremiah
>
> I hope this helps!
> Please send me all you learn.  I was wondering about
> starting up a emu10k1-alsa mailing list.  Do you think
> it would be beneficial or would be filled with confues
> people that have all questions and no answers?  I
> don't know.

I got the modules to work properly, but I haven't been able to find out 
exactly what I should put in my modules.conf to get them to autoload. It was 
a silly mistake on my part, I only had the headers in /usr/src/linux while I 
kept the source in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.5. Silly mistake... After I 
moved the source in with the headers it worked fine. 

The How-to is quite cryptic, and does a fairly poor job of explaining it. 
Right now I'm using a shell script that modprobes all the modules, alsaconf 
didn't help either.

I'm also having a horrible time getting the MIDI support to work. The ALSA 
site says that their SB Live drivers have hardware wavetable midi (at least I 
think it did, those were even more cryptic than the how-to). 

pmidi -l gives me this listing of MIDI ports:

Port     Client name                       Port name
 64:0     External MIDI 0                   MIDI 0-0
 65:0     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 0
 65:1     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 1
 65:2     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 2
 65:3     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 3

but I get no sound when I attempt to play a midi with it. The version of Kmid 
that Debian provides me doesn't have ALSA support

Help! And I think an emu10k1 mailing list would be helpful.

Holland