Originally posted by: manly
Originally posted by: pillage2001
It's a Sb live.

It's recognized in Windows but not in Linux.
The SB Live is probably the best supported 4-channel sound card under Linux.
It's been supported by ALSA for at least a year (and soon thereafter by the stock kernel). In fact, for a while, I preferred the stock kernel drivers because they didn't exhibit the static that is associated with SB Live cards on some PCI buses (it's generally considered that Creative hardware is at fault, though they'd never admit it). ALSA 0.9.x has fixed this issue, so it's configured for use on my system.
SuSE Linux has shipped ALSA as the default sound system for some time now, with pretty good auto-detection and setup.
The simplest way to get the hardware working is to load the
emu10k1 kernel module (as root):
# modprobe emu10k1
But you need to RTFM (Red Hat docs) and see if there's a more automated way of setting up sound cards and also the default mixer settings. Manually setting up a kernel module is correct, but an incomplete solution.