| About this product | |
|---|---|
| Product | Sound Blaster Live! Value |
| Vendor | Creative |
| Tested operating systems | Ark Linux Linux other Mandriva Linux Slackware Linux Ubuntu Linux |
| Average rating | |
| CompatDB XML | sound-blaster-live-value.xml |
Compatibility Reports for Sound Blaster Live! Value
Reported by Anonymous
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Ark Linux
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Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
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Reported by Anonymous
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Mandriva Linux
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Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
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Reported by Anonymous
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Mandriva Linux
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Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
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Reported by Anonymous
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Ubuntu Linux
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Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
Platinum version with I/O panel works well with ALSA in Fedora 5, 6, 7, and Ubuntu 6.06.
Reported by bhermanson
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Slackware Linux
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Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
Everything works well, except the ALSA drivers (in the latest 2.6 kernels) currently lack a "master" volume switch. You may be able to get the master volume working on kernels 2.6.10 and down (I did, but it wasn't labeled as "master." requires playing around a little), but good luck with 2.6.11+. The OSS driver for this soundcard works well, but support for OSS might not be around forever. Others report success with this card; whereas personally, I'm not going to buy another until the drivers are fixed.
Meanwhile, if you would really like the master volume to work correctly, and can't (or don't want to) switch to older kernels or OSS, search around on the ALSA mailing list for a patch (which I've personally tried, and it works, but needs to be changed for each new kernel)
Reported by fossks
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Mandriva Linux
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Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
Have had this working under Mandrake/Mandriva from 8.0 to 2005LE.
Reported by Anonymous
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Linux other
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Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 modified by Dell
ALSA 1.0.5 (currently development version) support the emu10k1x.
Reported by Anonymous
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Linux other
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Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 modified by Dell
Most distrobutions will not work with this card. OSS (opensound.com) supports the EMU10K1x, but you only get a short trial period before you must pay. I think ALSA developers are working on adding support, but currently buying OSS is the only way to get your card working.
Reported by Anonymous
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Linux other
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Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 modified by Dell
Dell ships a card with the Dimension line called the "SoundBlaster Live 5.1" (CT0200) which doesn't work with the EMU10K1 Linux driver. The modified one is EMU10K1X. See http://sbdell.free.fr/ (in french)
Reported by Anonymous
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Linux other
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Works great with emu10k1
Reported by Anonymous
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Linux other
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Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
works with its full potential. ac3,digital output.
