Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.8-5
Severity: important
In trying to use the alsa drivers with my SB Live! (the cheap one), I
had issues with keeping the OSS driver's (emu10k1) gameport module
unloaded in favor of snd-emu10k1-synth. After mucking around with
modules.conf and discover blacklists, I finally found what seems to
be a more correct solution. I have added an entry for the "SB Live!
MIDI/Game Port" in /lib/discover/alsa-base.pci-device.xml and all is
well. The alsa module is now "preferred" by discover.
My card is identified like this by discover:
1102 0002 Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1
1102 7002 Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port
I added the following to /lib/discover/alsa-base.pci-device.xml just
after the EMU10k1 entry:
<device model="7002" vendor="1102" model_name="SB Live! MIDI/Game Port">
<data class="linux">
<data class="module" version="[2.2,2.6)">
<data class="name">snd-emu10k1-synth</data>
</data>
</data>
</device>
Once this module is correct, the soundfont still has to be loaded before
the synths work. You need the awesfx package, the *.sf2 from the win32
drivers (from creative), and something like this in /etc/modutils/
post-install snd-emu10k1-synth /usr/bin/asfxload 2gmgsmt
Hope this helps!
Jeremy
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii alsa-utils 1.0.8-2 ALSA utilities
ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities
ii lsof 4.71-1 List open files.
ii modutils 2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities
-- debconf information excluded
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