Sound card question

Sound card question

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi all!
I am getting a sblive sound card today, but I am a bit nervous about it working,
probably just because I've had the old sb16 for so long.
1. If I compile it into the kernel, do I also have to load other drivers or not?
2. would it be ok to leave my sb16 in until I know this is working? If so, do I
have to take the sb16 out of the kernel when trying the sblive? I think I read
something about sblive not working in a multiple card setup. I don't want a
multiple setup; I just want a backup in case i have trouble getting the sblive
to work.
Thanks.

Re: Sound card question

[Terry Cudney]

Hi Cheryl,

	Don't worry about the SB Live card working. It's the easiest sound card I've set up.

	re two sound cards: I (and many others on this list) have multiple sound cards running. However, I (and most others I think) are using the ALSA drivers because they are better. They are modules that you can install/load (one for each different type of sound card you have). The instructions that come in the packages for ALSA (driver, lib and utils) are quite good. Just follow them and you won't have to compile a kernel each time you upgrade/change sound drivers. You do have to compile the kernel with sound support in and none of the other sound drivers in the kernel  though. Then install the ALSA packages and you're smiling!

HTH,

	--terry


You wrote:

-=> Hi all!
-=> I am getting a sblive sound card today, but I am a bit nervous about it working,
-=> probably just because I've had the old sb16 for so long.
-=> 1. If I compile it into the kernel, do I also have to load other drivers or not?
-=> 2. would it be ok to leave my sb16 in until I know this is working? If so, do I
-=> have to take the sb16 out of the kernel when trying the sblive? I think I read
-=> something about sblive not working in a multiple card setup. I don't want a
-=> multiple setup; I just want a backup in case i have trouble getting the sblive
-=> to work.
-=> Thanks.
-=>
-=>
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-=>


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Re: Sound card question

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Cheryl. I know the kernel 2.4.18 drivers support the sblive card natively. I don't know about the alsa drivers. They probably do, but just check the list of supported sound cards at www.alsa-project.org to make sure. What you could try doing if you want a backup is recompiling the sb16 driver into the kernel as a module, that way you can just switch modules by doing rmmod on the sb16 driver then doing modprobe or insmod on the sblive module. Hope this helps. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@chartermi.net>
To: speakup <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 8:50 AM
Subject: Sound card question


> Hi all!
> I am getting a sblive sound card today, but I am a bit nervous about it working,
> probably just because I've had the old sb16 for so long.
> 1. If I compile it into the kernel, do I also have to load other drivers or not?
> 2. would it be ok to leave my sb16 in until I know this is working? If so, do I
> have to take the sb16 out of the kernel when trying the sblive? I think I read
> something about sblive not working in a multiple card setup. I don't want a
> multiple setup; I just want a backup in case i have trouble getting the sblive
> to work.
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup


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