No Sound with Creative Sound Blaster Live 24bit

[micder]

Had no sound after install with default sound drivers, such as emu10k1.
Installed (PBI) alternative driver emu10kx.
kldstat indicated that both emu's were loaded.
Changed loader.conf:

#snd_driver_load="YES"
if_myk_load="YES"
snd_emu10k1_load="NO"
snd_emu10kx_load="YES"

Resulting kldstat:

Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1   19 0xc0400000 730b2c   kernel
 3    2 0xc0b3c000 1af50    linux.ko
 4    1 0xc0b57000 3219c    if_myk.ko
 5    2 0xc0b8a000 2438     libmbpool.ko
 6    1 0xc0b8d000 10ad0    snd_emu10kx.ko
 7    2 0xc0b9e000 22ae8    sound.ko
 8    1 0xc0bc1000 58554    acpi.ko
 9    1 0xc587e000 a000     ntfs.ko
10    1 0xc58cc000 6000     linprocfs.ko
11    1 0xc58de000 4000     logo_saver.ko

Still no sound:
cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:

Any chance to get my Sound Blaster Live?
In Linux the card is recognized as ca0106[/code]

[Apatewna]

Taken from this thread:
http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?t ... ght=ca0106

> I got a SoundBlaster Live! because it was listed as a known working
> piece of hardware. Apparently this is a newer version of the board that
> isn't supported yet. Getting it to work is becoming a PITA beyond what
> I have the time and willpower to put in right now.
>
> Is there a piece of sound hardware I can just run down to CompUSA and
> buy, that I can drop in here and get this thing working with *today*?


Just ran into this getting MythTV running on Gentoo. In ALSA, it seems the new soundblaster cards don't use the emu10k1 driver, they use the ca0106 driver. Don't know if this exists for FreeBSD or not. In my case, the ca0106 driver produced static and a hint of something that sounded like sound. I gave up, and stole an older soundblaster from another system I had.

Best regards,
Greg Groth

[TerryP]

I remember theres a sound load of some type needed in adition to the driver. I'll post my working config if no one sorts it out first.

[micder]

Removed emu10kx and installed oss driver from http://www.opensound.com
Anyhow sound works for the time being (License will expire after: 12/2006).
End of this year a BSD driver?

[dracheflieger]

Strange...according to this page on their site it free for personal use unless you run it 'with services'?

OSS is now free for home/personal use (runs in "unregistered mode" but no longer times out during evaluation). License is still required for commercial, educational and personal use with services

It does support a long list though.

[micder]

Today I got this message:

PCBSD# ./sndstart
**** UNREGISTERED VERSION ****


Thank you for installing Open Sound System

This unregistered version is FULLY FUNCTIONAL. You may use the unregistered
version for personal/non-commercial use only. All features of the registered
version are included in this package with the exception of technical support.

The easiest way to order OSS is using the 'Order permanent OSS license' option
of the soundconf program. Alternatively you can order the license from our
web site at: http://www.opensound.com/order.html


Open Sound System started OK.

No mention of expiring licence.
W'll see

[TerryP]

As far as I know OSS dosn't want to be nastards as long as they don't lose any ting through it.

[mal.exe]

I'm using this driver. Yes it will stop working in 6 month. I have to re-install it on my laptop every 6 months (big deal....)

[antik]

I'm using this driver. Yes it will stop working in 6 month. I have to re-install it on my laptop every 6 months (big deal....)

Linux ALSA drivers are found here- but if opensound drivers are become opensource then it does not make sense to port those drivers over anymore.

[Ian_Robinson]

Here is an update to the link in antik's post:


http://www-old.alsa-project.org/alsa...&module=ca0106


Edit: Gerard Van Essen brought my attention to the availability of a PBI for for SBLive

Emu10kx Audio Driver here: http://www.pbidir.com/packages.php?code=267