emu10k1 sound driver in F10/F11

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Steve wrote:
> I want to upgrade my home F9 system to F10 but I seem to recall someone on this list saying that the emu10k1 driver for my Audigy card is no longer supported and I need this (or I need to buy a new sound card!). A few other people were upset about this and there was some talk of someone picking up the maintenance of this driver.
> 
> Does anyone know the current situation?

I recently tried to install F11 (via the live DVD) on a Dell Dimension 
3000.  Couldn't install F11 directly (anaconda got lost trying to 
partition the available space), so I reverted back to F10, installed it, 
then used preupgrade to update to F11.  While it worked, there was no 
sound.  Since the Dell has a:

> 02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)

I assumed the same as you.  There is an open bug about kernel errors 
with this driver:

 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502698

There were a bunch of kernel oopses using the F11 live DVD.  All got 
sent automagically to kernel.org.

What I later discovered was that (for whatever reason), the installation 
chose the wrong output device for my sound card (it was using a digital 
output instead of the analog output).  Selecting the proper output made 
sound work for me.  And no more kernel oopses, either.

> Thanks,
> Steve

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