Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 36217
SB Live sounds odd
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:41 EDT
After fresh installation of RH 7.1 on my home PC I noticed that my Soundblaster Live sounds really odd - I cannot hear neraly any basses, etc. Installing the newest driver (emu10k1.o) from Creative fixes it. This is how RedHat's driver introduces himself: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.7, 20:53:49 Apr 8 2001 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 02:0e.0 emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 4 model 0x20 found, IO at 0xb800-0xb81f, IRQ 9 And this is what Creative's driver says: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.12, 11:44:28 Apr 17 2001 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 02:0e.0 emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 4 model 0x20 found, IO at 0xb800-0xb81f, IRQ 9 ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: 0x5452:0x4103 (TriTech TR28023)
I'm working on this. It appears that the kernel-driver has a "secret" option to turn on bass, unfortionatly it requires editing the Makefile. I wonder why it is not enabled by default; I assume some sblive's don't work with the option.
Maybe you could consider using Creative's newer driver instead. It doesn't have this "secret" option and works fine in its default configuration. At least for me. ;) Current situation (with no bass) is simply not acceptable, unless you want to use the soundcard just as a stupid beeper.
I'll have a look. Anyway, this is basically the same problem as bug #32723 so I'll mark this as a dupe of that bug to keep the info centralized. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32723 ***