Sound Blaster

[msillence]

Hi,

I recently purchased a soundblaster live 24 card.
As dramatic as the improvement is over the on boad sound, the board is very poorly supported in linux and suffers from stuttering and can not record (the main reason for purchase)

Please, please, please could you release enough documentation so someone can write an open driver for your hardware...

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Thanks,
M

[Cimmo]

I've bought recently the same sound board, I don't know why I'm not free to choose my operating system without suffering so poor support from Creative.

My money are different from someone that have Windows?
There is a main project for linux sound called ALSA, if you don't have time/want/know how to make a linux driver, please help this project works for you!

[Alinoe]

It seems everyone is buying this kind of card on linux, and it's actually very poorly supported because of a lack of documentations (stuttering and can no recording) :-(((

The developpers of ALSA haven't the specifications of the card to implement a nice driver. If you could send them the hardware specs or publish them for the public, it would be greatly appreciated from the linux community and it would help a lot of people.

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Thanks,
Alinoe

[kendalljr]

Incidentally, posting the specs might also help some enterprising person develop a WinXP64 driver. :-)

[dwh]

Is this complaint specifically about the SBLive 24, or is the complaint a broader one?

-Dave
dwh@cfcl.com

[Alinoe]

It's a complaint for those cards:

- Sound Blaster Live 24bit
- Sound Blaster LS

There are no hardware specifications for those cards so the board is very poorly supported in linux.... :-(
ALSA developpers can't invent the hardware specs ;-)~

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Alinoe

[dwh]

Presumably you mean the SBAudigy LS.

I rather suspect that these are both EMU10K2 cards, and mostly different from other Audigy2-line cards in some omissions like leaving off FireWire and gameport devices,
and using cheaper DAC/ADC devices. Have the ALSA folks tried treating them like the
base A2, even though they're branded SBLive/Audigy1?

I think it would be more productive to try that, then go to CL with specific questions
(assuming I'm right) about differences rather than a demand for disclosure.

-Dave
dwh@cfcl.com

[Cimmo]

Seems that an ALSA's programmer has just signed for a NDA, but no SPECS are sent yet.

We are waiting to utilize our sound-board @ 100% in linux...so difficult?

[dwh]

Software development indeed isn't that easy, and suffers from being highly variable in how long things actually end up taking.

If I bought a card for Linux, then discovered the problems cited, I'd send the card back for a model without the unresolved specs issue.

-Dave
dwh@cfcl.com

[Cimmo]

My sound blaster live 24 bit is integrated in my MSI K8N Platinum, I don't want to give back my fantastic motherboard.
I've bought this MB because the only one that has a decent sound instead of AC97...
...so what I have to do in your opinion? In my opinion asking for specs from creative to alsa isn't so stupid thing...Creative???

LINUX PEOPLE THAT HAS A SB LIVE 24 BIT: POST IN THIS THREAD, MAKE OUR VOICE BIGGER!