SBLive driver for Linux?

[Kooldino]

I can't believe that I can't find a Sound Blaster Live! driver for Linux (kubuntu).

Can anyone help me out here?

[Nowhere]

Do you have some problems during install or something? Because AFAIK it should be supported out of the box, by open source drivers...

[Kooldino]

I'm trying to run Stepmania (DDR clone) and I get this error:

ALSA: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.12rc1 (Thu
Jun 22 13:55:50 2006 UTC).
ALSA Driver: 0: Ensoniq AudioPCI [AudioPCI], device 0: ES1371/1 [ES1371
DAC2/ADC], 0/1 subdevices avail
ALSA Driver: 0: Ensoniq AudioPCI [AudioPCI], device 1: ES1371/2 [ES1371
DAC1], 1/1 subdevices avail
Couldn't load driver ALSA: dsnd_pcm_open(hw:0): Device or resource busy
Mixing 0.000000 ahead in 0 Mix() calls
Couldn't load driver ALSA-sw: dsnd_pcm_open(hw:0): Device or resource
busy
Mixing 0.000000 ahead in 0 Mix() calls
Couldn't load driver OSS: RageSound_OSS: Couldn't open /dev/dsp: Device
or resource busy
Language: english
Theme: default
Error: Couldn't find a sound driver that works

[Haig]

I think Creative uses the emu10k1-xxx driver for its cards.

[Kooldino]

I think Creative uses the emu10k1-xxx driver for its cards.

From what I've seen, it does.

I've rebooted and tried again, and now I'm getting this error...

<CODE>
desktop:~/StepMania-3.9$ ./stepmania

StepMania 3.9
Log starting 2007-02-07 10:55:59
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
Loading window: gtk
OS: Linux ver 020617
Crash backtrace component: x86 custom backtrace
Crash lookup component: dladdr
Crash demangle component: cxa_demangle
Runtime library: glibc 2.4
Threads library: NPTL 2.4
TLS is available
ALSA: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.12rc1 (Thu Jun 22 13:55:50 2006 UTC).
ALSA Driver: 0: Ensoniq AudioPCI [AudioPCI], device 0: ES1371/1 [ES1371 DAC2/ADC], 1/1 subdevices avail
ALSA Driver: 0: Ensoniq AudioPCI [AudioPCI], device 1: ES1371/2 [ES1371 DAC1], 1/1 subdevices avail
Couldn't load driver ALSA: Not enough substreams for hardware mixing, using software mixing
ALSA: Software mixing at 44100hz
Sound driver: ALSA-sw

(stepmania:26295): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_detach: assertion `style->attach_count > 0' failed
Video renderers: 'opengl'
ptrace failed: Operation not permitted
ptrace failed: Operation not permitted
ptrace failed: Operation not permitted

StepMania has crashed. Debug information has been output to

/tmp/crashinfo.txt

Please report a bug at:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=37892&atid=421366

Killed
desktop:~/StepMania-3.9$
</CODE>

I'm running the nvidia-glx driver on a Geforce 420MX. WTF?

[Haig]

Isn't there any way to make stepmania load OSS instead?

[TnT]

Maybe this will help:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labs&card=Sound+Blaster+Live+5.1.&chip=emu10k1&module=emu10k1

I used an SB Live on Linux with ALSA for several years back in 2000... so support has been there a long time.

I always compiled my own kernel and modules though. Make sure you have all the necessary modules in your autoload. You also don't have to reboot everytime just use modprobe to load/unload modules.

[Kooldino]

Isn't there any way to make stepmania load OSS instead?

OSS?

[Kooldino]

Maybe this will help:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labs&card=Sound+Blaster+Live+5.1.&chip=emu10k1&module=emu10k1

I used an SB Live on Linux with ALSA for several years back in 2000... so support has been there a long time.

I always compiled my own kernel and modules though. Make sure you have all the necessary modules in your autoload. You also don't have to reboot everytime just use modprobe to load/unload modules.

Well, it seems at this point that I'm having an OGL driver issue or something. Check out the post above with the message output.

[TnT]

Which distro are you using?

[Haig]

OSS?

http://www.4front-tech.com/linux.html

[Kooldino]

Which distro are you using?

kubuntu

[Kooldino]

http://www.4front-tech.com/linux.html

Ahh. In that case, i'll try this first:

I'm having problems getting sound to work in Linux with KDE

KDE is a desktop environment; ALSA and OSS are sound systems. KDE has its own sound layer, but we don't use it--we use the system interface.

Now, some people might have some difficulty getting StepMania and KDE's sound to both run at once: StepMania plays sounds directly to the hardware (hw:0), and not through the default interface (default), since going through dmix has traditionally caused problems. That means that if your hardware doesn't support hardware mixing, only one or the other can play at once, and KDE might be one of those "keep audio open all the time" apps. You can override this by setting "SoundDevice=default" in StepMania.ini, to see if it works properly now.

If the above doesn't help, kill the "artsd" process (which is the KDE sound layer). You can also run the program, prefixing it with "artsdsp" which redirects accesses to the system sound through the arts layer.