[mythtv-users]Still cannot get ALSA working w/Soundblaster Live on Debian

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Wed Jul 2 01:40:09 EDT 2003


Mike Miller wrote:
> Im running debian woody, im using a soundblaster live, now I know there 
> are people here, probably lots, who have this card and have it working 
> so hopefully someone can help.  My first problem was I had a problem 
> compiling the alsa-drivers, I downloaded alsa-driver .9.4, the lib, and 
> utils too.  I go to compile it, driver first, I untar, then I run configure
> 
> debian:~/downloads/alsa-driver-0.9.4# ./configure 
> --with-kernel=/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.16 --with-card=emu10k1 
> --with-sequencer=yes --with-isapnp=no
> 
> that completes, then I go to run make and I get this error
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/root/downloads/alsa-driver-0.9.4/drivers/vx'
> 
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/downloads/alsa-driver-0.9.4/drivers/vx'
> 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/downloads/alsa-driver-0.9.4/drivers'
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory `/root/downloads/alsa-driver-0.9.4/isa'
> 
> make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/downloads/alsa-driver-0.9.4/isa'
> 
> make: *** [compile] Error 1
> 
>  
> 
> what I then tried was make ?ignore which basically ignored the error, 
> this seemed to work, then I installed it, then I configured, make, 
> installed the other lib and utils, no problems there.  Then I ran 
> ./snddevices, then I tried to run modprobe snd-emu10k1;modprobe 
> snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss, however I got 
> the error
> 
> modprobe: Can't locate module snd-emu10k1
> 
> modprobe: Can't locate module snd-pcm-oss
> 
> modprobe: Can't locate module snd-mixer-oss
> 
> modprobe: Can't locate module snd-seq-oss

depmod -a

--  bjm




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