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Driver for Creative Sound Blaster Play [SOLVED]

Post by kaylux » Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:37 am

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Re: Driver for Creative Sound Blaster Play

Post by rene » Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:07 am

Likely works fine out of the box but test it yourself: boot the Live environment from USB or DVD and plug it in.

Re: Driver for Creative Sound Blaster Play

Post by Hoser Rob » Tue Jun 05, 2018 10:23 am

I did a quick search and it appears to work fine in Ubuntu 16.04 so you should be good in Mint 18.x which is 16.0 based. Don’t know about Mint 19 beta but new users should avoid beta releases anyway. They are virtually guaranteed to fail anyway at some point.

Most USB DACs will work fine in Linux but some features may not work. Basic operation of a USB DAC is quite standard with open IEC specs. As mentioned unless you haven’t bought one yet just test it in a USB stick live boot.

Re: Driver for Creative Sound Blaster Play

Post by kaylux » Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:38 am

rene wrote: ⤴ Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:07 am Likely works fine out of the box but test it yourself: boot the Live environment from USB or DVD and plug it in.

Thanks for the advice but could you explain why I should use a live environment? I’m a newbie. Even if it works in a live environment I would still have to get it to work on the installed os.

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Re: Driver for Creative Sound Blaster Play

Post by catweazel » Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:45 am

rene wrote: ⤴ Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:07 am Likely works fine out of the box but test it yourself: boot the Live environment from USB or DVD and plug it in.

«There is, ultimately, only one truth — cogito, ergo sum — everything else is an assumption.» — Me, my swansong.

Re: Driver for Creative Sound Blaster Play

Post by rado84 » Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:00 am

Hoser Rob wrote: ⤴ Tue Jun 05, 2018 10:23 am They are virtually guaranteed to fail anyway at some point.

it depends on what you’re using the beta for and how. I’m a relatively new user too but I just installed the beta and despite the few bugs I discovered since yesterday, it still works a lot better than 18.3.

Re: Driver for Creative Sound Blaster Play

Post by Hoser Rob » Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:02 am

Hoser Rob wrote: ⤴ Tue Jun 05, 2018 10:23 am They are virtually guaranteed to fail anyway at some point.

it depends on what you’re using the beta for and how. I’m a relatively new user too but I just installed the beta and despite the few bugs I discovered since yesterday, it still works a lot better than 18.3.

Re: Driver for Creative Sound Blaster Play

Post by rene » Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:48 am

kaylux wrote: ⤴ Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:38 am Thanks for the advice but could you explain why I should use a live environment? I’m a newbie. Even if it works in a live environment I would still have to get it to work on the installed os.

I assume(d) you were in possession of the hardware yet not (yet) a current Linux Mint system. In that sense, as catweazel said, «to test if it is supported before installing». If indeed this is the situation note that Linux comes bundled with most any driver available for it; that testing things from a Live environment is generally every bit as good as testing from an installed system; that you wouldn’t be installing additional drivers onto an installed system with Linux the same as you would with Windows.

It is however also possible that you are in possession of a current Linux Mint system yet not (yet) the hardware. In that case my suggestion is clearly N/A.

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Re: Driver for Creative Sound Blaster Play

Post by phd21 » Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:27 pm

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux Mint and its excellent forum!

I just read your post and the good replies to it. Here are my thoughts on this as well.

It would help to know more about your system setup. If you run » inxi -Fxzd » and » lsusb » from the console terminal prompt, highlight the results, copy and paste them back here, that should provide enough information.

FYI: There are some really nice graphical (GUI) programs for sound that start with «Qas», like the fantastic «Qasmixer», in the Software Manager or Synaptic Package Manager (SPM) that you can install and use. You may notice more options using QasMixer. Recommend installing «pulse audio volume control» as well.

Sound «Mixers» can be a little confusing if you are not familiar with them. If you bring up «Qasmixer» and make it fullscreen, on the right side you will have mixer devices where you can control your system sound. If you do not see the mixer devices, hit «F6». The mixer item «sysdefault» will show all installed sound card devices, and you will have various options to adjust various volume controls using «sliders» which you can turn off and on using the «dot» below the volume slider. There are also various other check boxes below that you can use, and depending upon your sound card(s) that sometimes includes headphone checkboxes and or sliders as well, like «Headphone Jack Sense».

The applications included are:
— qasconfig — browser for the alsa configuration tree
— qashctl — mixer for alsa’s high level control interface
— qasmixer — desktop mixer with features similar to alsamixer

Qasmixer is a desktop mixer application for alsa’s «simple mixer interface» and offers features similar to alsamixer. it also features a sytem tray icon with basic mixer functionality.

Phd21 : Mint 20 Cinnamon & xKDE (Mint Xfce + Kubuntu KDE) & KDE Neon 64-bit (new based on Ubuntu 20.04) Awesome OS’s , Dell Inspiron I5 7000 (7573) 2 in 1 touch screen, Dell OptiPlex 780 Core2Duo E8400 3GHz,4gb Ram, Intel 4 Graphics.

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Sound blaster play 3 linux

The device is supported by kernel versions 2.6.0 and newer according to the LKDDb:

Ver	Source	Config	By ID	By Class
2.6.0 — 2.6.16	drivers/usb/class/audio.c	CONFIG_USB CONFIG_USB_ACM CONFIG_USB_AUDIO CONFIG_USB_BLUETOOTH_TTY CONFIG_USB_MIDI CONFIG_USB_PRINTER	*	0101
2.6.0 — 2.6.34	sound/usb/usbaudio.c	CONFIG_SND CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO	*	0101
2.6.35 — 6.3	sound/usb/card.c	CONFIG_SND CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO	*	0101

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Sound Blaster PLAY! 3

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