emu10k1 Setup

mjgeiger · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 11 Location: Richmond, VA

Hello,

I have been looking around for a little while on trying to setup my SB-Live! sound card. I have searched the forums here and a few other places, but I guess I am a little confused just with the basics.

I have emerged media-sound/emu10k1 and followed it's instructions.

With the Kernel [2.4.20]
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1=m
CONFIG_MIDI_EMU10K1=y
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=y

And with /etc/modules.autoload
# Sound Blaster Live!
emu10k1

What my major question are:

1) Do I have to have the ALSA Tools, and everything associated with it, enabled (or used) when I am trying to get the settings (e.g. Rear Speakers, Audio-In, CD-Digital) to work?

2) Where do I make a script for the emu-script to follow?

Thanks for any help,
Matt

jufoa · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 9:40 pm Post subject:

seems to me that you got it right. you dont need anything related to alsa with sblive.

and you can run emu-script from /etc/modules.d/emu10k1
just put there

post-install /usr/local/etc/emu-script restore
pre-remove /usr/local/etc/emu-script save

and run update-modules

line72 · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 212

you should be able to edit /etc/emu10k1.conf to configure how many speakers you want etc. I have my 5.1 speakers and for some reason the volume is labeled weird. I believe my back speakers were ogain, my front channel was pcm and my center channel is mix.

/Line72

El_Presidente_Pufferfish · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1179 Location: Seattle

Arent you NOT supposed to have CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10k1
and CONFIG_MIDI_EMU10k1 in your kernel at all?

piggie · Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 4:15 am Post subject:

For alsa, you need sound support compiled as a module and thats about all.

From reading this is appears that you guys arent using alsa?
What are you using, and why?
I've had routing issues with my SBLive.
Most sounds come out all speakers, but anything from my line-in only comes out two of the 4 speakers.

evidence · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 85

El_Presidente is quite right. You DON'T want CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 and CONFIG_MIDI_EMU10K1 in the kernel built in or as modules. And you don't want to have anything to do with alsa. Also, CONFIG_SOUND should be a module, not built in. And same for CONFIG_SOUND_OSS.

sa · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 450

I doesnt hurt to have CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 and CONFIG_MIDI_EMU10K1 compiled as modules. but definatly not built in. When you emerge emu10k1 it will just overwrite the modules. (this is how I do it)....
probably redundant,
sa

flokno · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 1:11 am Post subject:

crimson · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 5:56 am Post subject:

I don't even use Gentoo's package of emu10k1. I just went straight to the SourceForge page and compiled them myself. Old habits die hard I guess

. Thats the only thing I have compiled myself that the Gentoo tree actually had.

Crg · Guru Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 345 Location: London

flokno · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 11:14 pm Post subject:

pac1085 · Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 6:40 pm Post subject: