This package is intended for sound blaster live! users. This is the emu10k1 sound driver from sourceforge.net. I used the CVS ones (including emu10k1 and emu-tools) downloaded august 03, 2002. The ebuild file is working. (I did this package for people like me that prefer using these drivers, and that have a "classic" sound blaster live, because the emu10k1-audigy package works only with the audigy). I suggest media-sound/emu10k1. This ebuild depends on aumix. It conflicts with emu10k1-audigy, both can't be merged together (the source are both from sourceforge, but the config files from emu10k1-audigy are adapted to the sound blaster audigy line of card only. The file /etc/modules.d/audigy should be delated -if existing- when merging emu10k1 (that provides /etc/module.d/emu10k1). The ebuild file attached cares about the dependencies but not the conflict. Please have a look at it. I used CVS version of the emu10k1 drivers (I've always used cvs ones for these drivers, it have always worked fine) so I didn't know how to set SRC_URI, I have had a look at the emu10k1-audigy ebuild file... Please check it. Please find attached emu10k1-20020803.tar.bz2 (the source CVS drivers) and emu10k1.tar.bz2 (containing the ebuild file and the modified emu10k1 config files that must be installed). I thank you in advance, Eric P.S. : I hope my english isn't too bad...
Created attachment 2809 [details] emu10k1_allfiles.tar tar file contains the ebuild and the CVS sources
Hi Eric, Thanks for submitting this ebuild. I have created a request (bug. 5958) for updating and fixing the audigy-branch as well. I'm not able to create an ebuild myself (yet). Would you be so kind to create an ebuild for the audigy (from CVS) as well and add it to bug 5958. This way we can take a little load from the Gentoo-developers. Your effort would be appreciated by a lot af people. Thanks again for your contribution. Regards, John Herdy.
I suggest renaming the ebuild to emu10k1-sblive to prevent a confusion. It could happen that audigy owners merge the emu10k1-ebuild (because it's newer)if it doesn't have explicitly sblive in its name. Regards, John Herdy.
What is the benefit of the sourceforge drivers vs. alsa vs. the creative drivers? Strict conflict dependancy tracking should be used and the differences [pros vs. cons] should be explained.
Creative has not released drivers for Linux, on SourceForge there is an opensource driver for the sblive/audigy. I have an audigy and with my configuration I don't get real 5.1 with alsa. All the speakers work though but not truly 5.1. With the driver from SF and oss all the nifty features work. So that's a pro for SF, a pro for alsa is that it is going to replace oss (in the new kernel) and it has a good framework but (for the audigy) it's not there yet. I don't know if all the nifty features work for the sblive. Regards, John Herdy.
As far as I know, the emu10k1 sound driver from Sourceforge are opensource from creative => http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1/ They are both for sb live and audigy cards (as I said above, you have to choose between the emu-script or the audigy-script, both are in the package). The current supported features are : -Stereo wave audio input and output -Rear speakers are stereo-mirrored -Up to 32 simultaneous playback instances via multiple-open on /dev/dsp -Digital SPDIF input and output -Mixer support -Joystick support -External MIDI device support -Works with 2.2 and 2.4 series kernels, with or without SMP (Have a look at http://opensource.creative.com) I prefer using theses drivers instead of the ALSA ones because I think their quality is better. I don't think that it's useful to rename emu10k1 to emu10k1-sblive because these drivers where originally for sb-live... people knows that, I don't think there can be a confusion. Best regards, Eric
Created attachment 4992 [details] emu10k1-0.20a.tar.bz2 I updated the ebuild with the latest "stable" release from http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1/ dated September 27, 2002. It's just a bugfix, but at least it's an official release and not pulled from cvs.
How can we emerge the emu10k1-sblive ebuild ? The only one I find in /usr/portage/media-sound is emu10k1-audigy which does not work with SBlive, but with audigy cards ?
ok, heres the dilly folks emu10k1-audigy == dead http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/media-sound/emu10k1-audigy/Attic/ emu10k1 == all-in-one package (for SBLive! and Audigy) http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/media-sound/emu10k1/ emu10k1 is sitting at 0.20a in portage (the latest available on sourceforge) enjoy
