OK. So I'm building my debian system, how to say... *minimally* :). I have X up and running, but I need to get sound working.
I have a Soundblaster Live Platinum card, (EMU10K). I'll be compiling in support for that with my my new kernel.
However, I'm a little confuzed as to which set of sound drivers to use.
I have a MIDI keyboard, and would like to take advantage of this. I also use XMMS, Ogle, and all the normal desktop stuff.
Anyone have any ideas could elucidate for me? (Mr.Casal?) It seems from their webpages that there are several projects doing much-the-same-thing.
TIA Ricardo PS. Debian rocks big time.
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Ricardo Campos wrote:
However, I'm a little confuzed as to which set of sound drivers to use.
Erm, sorry, been away from alug mail for a while...
By far the best drivers are OSS commercial. You can purchase the ume10k1 driver for the SB card from them for something like 15 dollars. Now, if you feel like buying drivers is against principles (whichever), maybe ALSA 0.9 is the way to go, though it is hard to get to work properly.
Anyone have any ideas could elucidate for me? (Mr.Casal?) It seems from their webpages that there are several projects doing much-the-same-thing.
Well, Pure Data (http://www.pure-data.org) is a good place to start with rocking linux sound apps, plus a great testing application while you compile drivers, etc.
Let me know if you need more info.
Cheers, dc
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