SoundBlaster Live

[gerard patel]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:37:23 +1000, Pete <kookey42 at 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