[Gloucs] Sound Problems with Soundblaster Live SORTED

[Mike Surtees]

On Monday 17 Feb 2003 7:02 pm, Mike Surtees wrote:

Thanks for the overwhelming response - however I've sorted it now - in ca=
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anyone else happens to have a similar (or dissimilar problem with SuSe 8.=
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KDE 3/ Soundblaster  Live! the problem was one of IRQ's in that the card=20
requires IRQ 5 for SB16 emulation.  Simply reserving IRQ5 for legacy devi=
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in the BIOS solved the problem

See you Tuesday

Mike




> Hi all,
>
> I'm having some trouble with the sound on my system and was hoping some=
one
> might know whats going wrong!
>
> I'm running SuSE 8.1 and the s/card is A SB Live! Platinum with a Live
> Drive 2.  YAST2 has found and configured the card.  I can play CD's and
> MP3's from the HDD. However, when KDE tries to play a "system" sound on=
ly
> the first "note" of the sound plays and repeats 20 times.
>
> While I can live without the beeps'n'farts its an anoying niggle that I
> would like to sort out.
>
> I suspect the problem lies with the Live Drive, as I have had SB live
> working perfectly before under suse 7.2.  A dally with google doesn't t=
urn
> anything up, and neither has the Suse support database.
>
> Any help or ideas appreciated or the thing is going into the wifes MS b=
ox,
> which would be a shame (sort of like admitting defeat :-(   )
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
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