Re: [ILUG] Drivers for SB Live! Platinum???

From: lbedford at domain wbtsystems.com
Date: Tue 30 May 2000 - 16:16:11 IST


On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 04:12:16PM +0100, Paul Kelly wrote:
> Joe Fay wrote:
> > I've tried some of the drivers for this card under Linux, but nothing
> > consistant and satisfactory so far. I need to do full duplex -- both
> > MIDI and multiple audio tracks.
>
> Did you try the latest snapshot from http://opensource.creative.com ?
>
> Works for me with full duplex on the PCM side, and it has the neat trick
> of allowing up to 32 programs to open /dev/dsp - all mixed into the
> output.
MIDI has some problems though. Check the archives of the mailing list,
but you want the sequencer tag of the current version (CVS will be
required). I think it does full duplex, and it definitely does
hardware mixing, which means in general you don't need esd any more,
unless you want to do network stuff.

L.

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