Folks, I last saw this problem in a thread in this newsgroup a couple of years ago, but there was no solution then. It was then stated that you couldn't get a SoundBlaster Live sound card to work under Wine because Windows 'ran' everything through the emu10k1.vxd file and Wine did not support vxd files. Is this still the case? Has anyone found a workaround yet? Pete
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:37:23 +1000, Pete <kookey42@goconnect.net> wrote:>Folks, > >I last saw this problem in a thread in this newsgroup a couple of years >ago, but there was no solution then. > >It was then stated that you couldn't get a SoundBlaster Live sound card to >work under Wine because Windows 'ran' everything through the emu10k1.vxd >file and Wine did not support vxd files. > >Is this still the case?Yes>Has anyone found a workaround yet?Well, use an unix driver : using a SoundBlaster is common these days with recent version of Linux, the driver is even named emu10k :-) Some features are not yet available in all cases I think (recording in DirectSound) but this has nothing to do with vxd support (I am certain that even 2 years ago it was clearly stated that Wine would never support these - now finally obsolete - things) Gerard
Pete wrote:> Folks, > > I last saw this problem in a thread in this newsgroup a couple of years > ago, but there was no solution then. > > It was then stated that you couldn't get a SoundBlaster Live sound card to > work under Wine because Windows 'ran' everything through the emu10k1.vxd > file and Wine did not support vxd files. > > Is this still the case? > > Has anyone found a workaround yet?Why not just use the Linux driver?? It's in the standard 2.4 kernel (and is available for 2.2). 2.4.13 is probably the best choice at the moment. It works great for me. If you're more adventurous download the utils from http://opensource.creative.com and play with some of the more interesting features of the card (such as writing your own DSP code to download onto the EMU10K1 processor :) - Daniel -- ****************************************************************************** * Daniel Franklin - Postgraduate student in Electrical Engineering * University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia * d.franklin@ieee.org ******************************************************************************