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2 soundcards, one Live! Drive II on Linux
Hello --
I have a SoundBlaster Live! Platinum with Live! Drive II in my system, which works perfectly well with the latest ALSA 0.9.5 drivers. A friend of mine recently upgraded his Windows 2000 system hardware, which left him with a spare SoundBlaster Live! card (which is perfectly functional). I put this card in my system as a stand alone second sound card (/dev/dsp1), and it worked fine. Then I had an idea - why not connect the card to the secondary expansion connector on the Live! Drive II? The first sound card connects to connector JP1 on the Live! Drive II, so the second card connects to JP2 (I was lucky enough to have a spare ribbon cable lying around, and NO it's NOT an IDE cable ;-) ). Now, however, /dev/dsp1 seems to be inaccessible. I have adjusted the volumes on the secondary card using "alsamixer -c 1" to be identical to sound card 1, but when card 2 is selected in (for example) XMMS, the audio file is playing, but there is no sound from either the Live! Drive II or the output on the back of the card. My modules.conf is thus: # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd options snd major=116 cards_limit=2 alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 alias snd-card-1 snd-emu10k1 options snd-emu10k1 extin="0x3fcf" extout="0x1fcf" # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss The output of /var/log/messages is: Jul 26 21:26:43 odessa modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-6 I apologise for the long post. Can anyone help? Best regards, Rohan Beckles -- ABIT VP6 Pentium III "Coppermine" @ 1GHz (2 off) PQI 1GB SDRAM Seagate Barracuda 20.4GB Hercules 3D Prophet GTS Pro 64MB RedHat Linux 8.0 (vanilla kernel 2.4.20) ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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Hello --
I've just realised that the secondary connector on the Live! Drive II is actually intended for the Digital I/O card. However, the connector is identical to the expansion connector on the SoundBlaster Live! card itself, and the expansion cable fits perfectly. Surely this second connector can be made to work with a second Live! card? I'm grateful for any help. Best regards, Rohan Beckles -- ABIT VP6 Pentium III "Coppermine" @ 1GHz (2 off) PQI 1GB SDRAM Seagate Barracuda 20.4GB Hercules 3D Prophet GTS Pro 64MB ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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