[PlanetCCRMA] Soundblaster Live! 24-bit card

[greg mccourt]

Yes. I just built a machine with this card a couple months ago. I live and work in S.E. Asia and getting anything like an RME card here is near impossible---if I import it, there is a 200% luxury tax (plus tips for officials).

I haven't tried input, but 2 channel output---haven't tried multiple yet-- works with CCRMA on FC3 and ALSA. I've never been able to get Jack working. Most of my current work is non-realtime sample rendering, so as long as I can read and playback a file, I've been productive. However, I would like to get Jack and associated apps working because I'm sure I would take advantage of them, eventhough most of what I do involves writing and compiling code.

I don't know if it is the soundcard that Jack doesn't like or not. I posted my problems a couple months back with the relevant system stats and the only response was that everything looked in order: `Jack just doesn't like your hardware'. Not much to go on, so I got on with my music projects without Jack. But given that this is a recent card from Creative, perhaps IT is causing the problem?

I may have messed somethings up myself as I followed another HOWTO when initially setting up video apps before installing Planet---video has never worked... can't play anything in any app. I'm not too interested in video---hell, use the console more than X---so, it wasn't much of a bother. It seems nobody else has the problems I have with Jack or video---my karma, perhaps (no pun intended). I've considered trying a fresh install doing everything CCRMA-pure, but I have quite a bit of backup to do first... and a day or two off work.

I was hoping to do 4.1 work (quad + sub) with this card, but I'm starting to think it not possible. At this point I'd be happy to buy a 16bit card that works. I find the ALSA soundcard map difficult: why isn't there a recommended soundcard list and not-recommended list like what the CUPs people do? The soundcard map could be a link to 'maybe'. In my experience, getting a soundcard that works with linux has been more frustrating than I think it should be. Someone at ALSA please just give a short list of what works, what doesn't and point questionable cards to the map. I think that would really help people with their hardware purchase.

BTW: Has CM been upgraded? I tried some of the new examples from the CM site and my CCRMA install of CM didn't seem to recognize some forms.

Greg


-----Original Message-----
From: planetccrma-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU on behalf of Michael_Jackson@unpress.nevada.edu
Sent: Sat 10/15/2005 2:19 AM
To: planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] Soundblaster Live! 24-bit card
 
Anyone using this card? I upgraded to it, only to find that I can't 
capture any inputs - they're disable. I discover that the
sound driver ca0106 doesn't support any capture from analog inputs for 
this card. Any workaround for this? -mj