Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 4 Sep 2001 05:54:22 -0500 (CST) | From | Daryl F <> | Subject | Re: Sound Blaster Live - OSS or Not? |
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I use alsasound with this card. It is free! Just be sure to configure it for OSS emulation. You can find the software at http://www.alsa-project.org/
HTH, Daryl
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Thiago Vinhas de Moraes wrote:
> > Hi! > > I have a Sound Blaster Live! PCI that works pretty fine for me. > > I tried to run loki's Quake 3 Arena for Linux, and after several tries, I > started to read the README file, and it said that Sound Blaster Live does not > work as OSS. I found a reference to www.opensound.com, where they sell OSS > drivers for Sound Blaster Live for $35.00 !! That's too much money for a > sound driver! I've downloaded a trial, and it really worked to play Quake. > > My question is: If the 2.4.9 kernel has support for Sound Blaster Live, why I > have to pay for a damn non-GPL driver? Why it does not work to play games on > linux? > > > Regards, > Thiago > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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