Mandrake uses ALSA and seems to detect and configure both cards properly, both 9.1 and 9.2 create /dev/sound/dsp and /dev/sound/dsp1. However all attempts at getting /dev/sound/dsp1 to play a sound fail. /Dev/sound/dsp works perfectly. Using the alsa-player also fail at every address, "aplay -d hw:0,0 test.wav" "aplay -d hw:0,1 test.wav" "aplay -d hw:0,2" or "aplay -d hw:1,0" "aplay -d hw:1,1" or 1,2 or 1,3 or 1,4, none of them work.
My first request for assistance using Gentoo has been ignored so I have ascertained from this that this is NOT a "creative" company support venue. There are probably a few guys that wrote this driver that have since moved on to whatever else they have to do to pay the bills. And that being the case this "dual card" scenario has probably never been tested. Judging by the time periods that previous bugs were not resolved in it looks like we Sound Blaster users are not supported in Linux very well. Another reason not use linux that will be thrust back at us by Microsoft.
Oh, by the way, both cards play just fine under windoze.
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Mandrake uses ALSA and seems to detect and configure both cards properly, both 9.1 and 9.2 create /dev/sound/dsp and /dev/sound/dsp1. However all attempts at getting /dev/sound/dsp1 to play a sound fail. /Dev/sound/dsp works perfectly. Using the alsa-player also fail at every address, "aplay -d hw:0,0 test.wav" "aplay -d hw:0,1 test.wav" "aplay -d hw:0,2" or "aplay -d hw:1,0" "aplay -d hw:1,1" or 1,2 or 1,3 or 1,4, none of them work.
My first request for assistance using Gentoo has been ignored so I have ascertained from this that this is NOT a "creative" company support venue. There are probably a few guys that wrote this driver that have since moved on to whatever else they have to do to pay the bills. And that being the case this "dual card" scenario has probably never been tested. Judging by the time periods that previous bugs were not resolved in it looks like we Sound Blaster users are not supported in Linux very well. Another reason not use linux that will be thrust back at us by Microsoft.
Oh, by the way, both cards play just fine under windoze.