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At 09:26 PM 4/6/2000 -0500, Karen D. Camarda wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>OK, so we got the Sound Blaster PCI/128 card,
and the demo version of the<br>
OSS drivers. For PCI cards, the configuration program for the
drivers<br>
(soundconfig) will only allow the card to be auto-detected, as opposed
to<br>
selected from a list. It decides that our card is a "Sound Blaster
PCI /<br>
Ensoniq Audio PCI97 (ES1371/ES1373)".<br>
<br>
The problem is that we are still getting the loopback, and the
mute*<br>
variables that setup-mixer tries to alter are not there. (I can't send
the<br>
output of ossmix right now, but I've looked at it and they're not<br>
there.) One of the README files that came with the drivers implies
that<br>
they ought to be there, but they're not. Any ideas or
comments?</blockquote><br>
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At 08:38 PM 4/6/2000 -0600, Richard Coffey wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Along this same vein, I want to do the upgrade
to the Sound Blaster Live<br>
Platinum or the Turtle Beach Montego II Quadzilla that we
purchased. Any<br>
caveats on either of these free linux drivers?</blockquote><br>
<br>
The answer to both of these queries is, I hope, ALSA plus the latest rat.
<br>
<br>
Karen, please try out the 4.2.1 version of rat per my earlier email.
Perhaps they've fixed the mixer problem (if not we can poke them and see
if they can check it out). If that doesn't work for you, fire up the rat
and a Linux audio mixer. Ignore the rat sliders and use the mixer to set
the line level to zero, and adjust input gain with the mixer.<br>
<br>
Richard, I worry about non-support of the Aureal chip in teh Montego.
SBLive is pretty well supported under ALSA.<br>
<br>
I'm aiming to switch the two ANL nodes over to ALSA machines next week
(or tomorrow if I'm really moving well). Hopefully things will go well
and we can start shifting other sites as well. Part of the motivation is
the ability then to support cards like the Midiman Delta, multiport card
with external analog to digital conversion for hopefully much cleaner
audio.<br>
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<a href="http://www.midiman.com/Html/products/delta66.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.midiman.com/Html/products/delta66.html</a><br>
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