dell and sound

[Richard Heldmann]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Wilkinson" <james at westexe.demon.co.uk>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: dell and sound


> Brian West wrote:
>> I have a dell demention 8300 with a soundblaster live 5.1 sound card.
>> the sound card is detected but does not work lspci and the sound card
>> detector see the card but alsa appears not to i get a sound server error
>> when i login.
>
> Can you do an
> lspci -n | grep 1102:0006
>
> If you get an output, then you have one of the Dell variety of Sound
> Blasters. These are not the same as you buy elsewhere, and I do not
> believe that they have an Open Source driver.
>
> See http://www.alsa-project.org/black.html and
> http://opensource.creative.com/soundcard.html for details.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> James.
>
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There's a driver for the Dell SB Live at Alsa's site.  They're up to v1.8, 
and the driver was included in 1.6a.  Unfortunately, FC3 is at v1.6.
I can't help you install.  Maybe someone else here can.
Good luck!