SB Live!

[dmartin at ne.arris-i.com (Derek Martin)]

For those of you who were thinking about buying a new soundcard, and were
considering the SB Live but changed your mind because it didn't have Linux
support, well, it does now.

You can get drivers for it at http://opensource.soundblaster.com/ IIRC.
The driver does not yet support the on-board synthesizer devices (or I
don't have it installed properly) but it does support external midi and
wave output (i.e. it can play .wav files).  The Environmental audio
support is coming soon.

Incidentally, I'm having more trouble with this card under windows than
under Linux.  At the moment, I'm getting no sound of any kind out of it
under windows 98.  Under Linux, it sounds great! 

Windows reports that the card is working, at it appears to go through the
motions of playing the sound, but no audio.  :(  Well, I'm due for a
reinstall anyway... I'm going to drop back to Windows 95 OSR2 also...
which will fix another problem I'm having with hardware that's
incompatible with Win98.  Damned MoronSoft.

-- 
Derek D. Martin      |  Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive    |  A Nortel Company
derekm at mediaone.net  |  dmartin at ne.arris-i.com
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