GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams
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GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams |
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The sound card turns out not to be a real SB Live! soundcard, and was not originally supported by GNU/Linux. The onboard sound card which worked just fine, although it does not have the features of the SB Live! This means that you can't listen to Audio CD music directly, since the drive is plugged into the broken sound card.
Newer versions of the kernel do support the sound card (at least from
2.6.11). The two soundcards are identified:
$ lspci | grep audio
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp.
82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs
[SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X
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See Section 7.1.2 for details on setting up the sound cards.
Some applications play badly on the SB Live! sound card. It is very choppy (e.g., with realplay for example, but not xmms).
