RedHat 7.3 and SB Audigy - Anyone had any luck?

[joeld]

I'm dabbling again in linux, but I will never do it full time unless I can get sound 🙂

Has anyone had any luck with the audigy in linux? If so, did they use hacked creative drivers, ALSA drivers, or what?
Thanks

 

[Electrode]

Yes, I have been playing MP3's at unreasonable volume levels on my SB Audigy for quite some time. 😀

Although the ALSA drivers are ok, I couldn't get my analog 4.1 setup to work right. Instead, I use this driver. It works fine with mpg123, Quake 3, UT, and every other sound-making app I use.

Just download the patch that matches your kernel, apply it, and then go into kernel config and enable it as a module, then run make modules-install.

 

[joeld]

hmmm -- redhat 7.3 uses the 2.4.18-3 kernel - which do I choose in that case?

 

[joeld]

I tried the patch for 2.4.18-1, since that was the latest one besides the .19 version, and i could not find the necessary files to patch. I was looking in /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1, is this right? I'm extremely new to patching, so I don't know if I did it right. I put the patch in that folder, then did patch -p4 origfile patch file. Of course it didn't work 🙂 Any suggestions?

 

[Electrode]

For one thing, the patch is against the official 2.4.18 kernel, not whatever abomination redhat has included. I would be amazed if the patch worked at all.

Second, apply the patch with -p1 FROM THE /usr/src DIRECTORY. Then enable the emu10k1 (SB Live) driver in Sound Devices as a module, and do make dep modules-install

 

[Chaotic42]

<< not whatever abomination redhat has included. I would be amazed if the patch worked at all. >>



LMAO. Ahhhhh that's so true.

🙂 !