Sounblaster live usb driver prob

Hello everyone. Have encountered a problem with the 'standalone' driver update for my usb soundblaster li've. I installed the driver - without anything else, just as is - but there isn't an option to activate 5. sound anywhere - done the usual things - control panel etc. Worse I couldn't and still can't find an uninstall option. Nowhere. I've looked, control panel, everywhere. So ... I foolishly installed the stuff off the cd - which worked, I got 5. sound, but then I was getting some horrible noises with cubase so I decided to try uninstalling everything but just can't. I removed eveything I could, but couldn't find how to get rid of the standalone update. I just want to install the drivers cleanly - and thereby hopefully get cubase to work without the noise that I get with the creative drivers - it works with windows drivers, but I get really bad latency problems.
I wonder if anyone could advise me on how to fully uninstall all the creative stuff, and then if I ought to install stuff off the CD first and THEN the update?
Oh I'm running XP Pro, via chipset, nvidia graphics.
Thanks for any help offered.
P

?The speakers no longer work at all with the headset unplugged. The Li've card is still set as the default (I've tried with the 'use only default devices' checked and unchecked, neither work). I've verified the checkboxes and sliders in the Volume control settings. All the basics (I think) have been covered, and there is still no sound coming from the speakers.

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Boot Arch Linux (i686)
Boot existing OS
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Last edited by jones (2013-07-15 07:15:18)

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Recently I decided to install Arch linux on it, but before that, being a bloody smart person, I decided to back up existing windows partition and CentOS filesystem to the external HDD connected with some noname SATA-to-USB connector.
(Actually it has a name, which is "Bus 002 Device 009: ID 14cd:6116 Super Top M6116 SATA Bridge").
Enclose has my old 500GB Segate in it with LVM partition.
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missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
I ran fsck on other laptop (Fedora 17) and got file system fixed but empty (well, lots of errors, everything was linked under lost+found).
RIP my backup (I have a copy on the storage and this one will be accessed via network only
I re-created FS (ext3), copied on it couple gigs of test files, connected drive to dell, mounted FS, "ls" the dir, all good.
Unmounted FS, mounted again - get what is quoted above - I/O errors.
The same drive on the same laptop works without any problem with installed CentOS and live GRML so it is not a hardware itself.
So far:
1. external drive can be mounted without problem when it is just connected to Arch
2. After some data traffic it starts to produce I/O errors.
3. When good FS is unmounted and then mounted again the story is the same - I/O errors.
4. As soon as it happened I cannot change FS on drive, I cannot change partition table and so on. fdisk and mkfs completed without error but FS is not there and attempt to mount produces the error above.
Below is some info about installation:
System is installed on encrypted with Luks LVM partition.
External HDD is not encrypted.
[root@darkstar ~]# uname -a
Linux darkstar 3.6.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 22 10:23:56 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@darkstar ~]# pacman -Suy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do
[root@darkstar ~]#
# dmesg after connection of USB drive
[Nov 2 14:08] usb 2-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd
[ +0.085473] scsi8 : usb-storage 2-1.1:1.0
[ +1.002053] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Mass Storage Device PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ +0.001279] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773166 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
[ +0.000664] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ +0.000011] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ +0.000562] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
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[ +0.002354] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ +0.000011] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ +0.049185] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
[ +0.003149] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ +0.000022] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ +0.000006] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[Nov 2 14:09] usb 2-1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd
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There was also XFS volume on the same VG.
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[Nov 2 14:16] EXT4-fs (dm-8): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem
[ +0.036964] EXT4-fs (dm-8): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem
[ +0.026500] EXT4-fs (dm-8): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem
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[ +0.000023] XFS (dm-8): SB validate failed
Will appreciate any help,
Thanks,
Eugene.

Little bit of testing, just out of curiousity - do not have time to dig into it, sorry.
It puts garbage starting with "USBC" in first 32 bytes (the rest of the string varies) and then skips first 4K.
Tested it with CentOS - at least its 2.6 kernel works as expected.
[root@darkstar test]# uname -a
Linux darkstar 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 16 15:57:10 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@darkstar test]# perl -e 'print "a"x5120' |dd bs=512 count=10 of=/dev/sdb
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
5120 bytes (5.1 kB) copied, 0.258486 s, 19.8 kB/s
[root@darkstar test]# dd bs=512 count=10 if=/dev/sdb status=noxfer |od -tax1
0000000 a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61
0012000
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
[root@darkstar test]# uname -a
Linux darkstar 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 16 15:57:10 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@darkstar test]# uname -a
Linux darkstar 3.6.7-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Nov 18 08:35:06 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@darkstar test]# perl -e 'print "7"x5120' |dd bs=512 count=10 of=/dev/sdb
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
5120 bytes (5.1 kB) copied, 0.303432 s, 16.9 kB/s
[root@darkstar test]# dd bs=512 count=10 if=/dev/sdb status=noxfer |od -tax1
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
0000000 U S B C : soh nul nul nul dc4 nul nul nul nul nl *
55 53 42 43 ba 01 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 0a 2a
0000020 nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nl nul nul nul nul nul nul nul ^
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 de
0000040 a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61
0001000 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
37 37 37 37 37 37 37 37 37 37 37 37 37 37 37 37
0012000
[root@darkstar test]# uname -a
Linux darkstar 3.6.7-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Nov 18 08:35:06 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@darkstar test]#
Last edited by Eugene (2012-11-26 01:15:46)

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Thanks for your attention and assistance.
Charles

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• Drag the drive's desktop icon to the Trash.
• Control-click the drive's desktop icon, then select Eject from the resulting context menu.
• In Disk Utility, select the drive, then either:- Click Eject in the Disk Utility tool bar.
- Select File > Eject Disk.
- Press Command-E.Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

[Solved] Delete files from usb drive connected to wireless router

Hello,
I have a home network with Samba for file sharing.
I have a Netgear router with a Western Digital 2TB external drive attached to the router.
I installed Samba according to the arch wiki and everything works fine but I cannot delete or access some files from the shared USB drive.
I access the file as follows:
$ cd /mnt/smbnet/WORKGROUP/READYSHARE/USB_Storage/
Here are the permissions:
$ ls -l /mnt/smbnet
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 DEANSNETWORK
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 MYGROUP
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 WORKGROUP
$ ls -l /mnt/smbnet/WORKGROUP/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 31 1969 READYSHARE -> ../READYSHARE
$ ls -l /mnt/smbnet/WORKGROUP/READYSHARE/
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 USB_Storage
$ ls -l /mnt/smbnet/WORKGROUP/READYSHARE/USB_Storage/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 edgar users 0 Jul 22 21:04 BACKUPS
drwxr-xr-x 2 edgar users 0 Jul 15 10:43 WD
$ ls -l /mnt/smbnet/WORKGROUP/READYSHARE/USB_Storage/BACKUPS/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 edgar users 0 Jul 11 22:36 Laurie_Laptop
drwxr-xr-x 2 edgar users 0 Jul 22 21:04 TRASH
drwxr-xr-x 2 edgar users 0 Jul 12 09:50 Work_Laptop
If I try to delete the BACKUPS directory, I get errors:
$ rm -r BACKUPS/
rm: cannot remove ‘BACKUPS/Laurie_Laptop’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘BACKUPS/TRASH/Documents/C++Prog/2541/BibleTriviaTest’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘BACKUPS/TRASH/Documents/C++Prog/2541/HouseTest’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘BACKUPS/TRASH/Documents/C++Prog/Bitmanip’: Directory not empty
rm: cannot remove ‘BACKUPS/TRASH/Documents/C++Prog/CurrentMusicPrograms/Musc110’: Directory not empty
etc...
Attempting to change the mode doesn't work:
$ chmod 777 BACKUPS/
[edgar@arch USB_Storage]$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 edgar users 0 Jul 22 21:04 BACKUPS
drwxr-xr-x 2 edgar users 0 Jul 15 10:43 WD
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Last edited by mrgar (2014-07-24 02:11:56)

Here is the output:
$ mount | grep /mnt
smbnetfs on /mnt/smbnet type fuse.smbnetfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
The USB drive is Western Digital My Book 2 TB drive attached as a NAS to the router that shares it. I installed Samba on the arch machine so I can access and backup various home computers onto the NAS.
Here is some info I just found on the Western Digital Support site:
The Western Digital units mentioned above use a proprietary file system and cannot be reformatted as FAT32, NTFS, or a Mac File System.
The file system on the WD My Cloud EX2, WD My Cloud EX4, WD My Cloud, WD My Book Live, WD My Book Live Duo, WD ShareSpace, WD ShareSpace, WD TV Live Hub, My Net N900 Central, WD My Book World Edition, WD NetCenter hard drives support access from Windows, Mac and most Linux based computer systems through a SAMBA network sharing connection.
I thought I would mention that I can access the NAS and write, read and execute from the drive.
$ cd /mnt/smbnet/WORKGROUP/READYSHARE/USB_Storage/
[edgar@arch USB_Storage]$ mkdir Test
[edgar@arch USB_Storage]$ ls
BACKUPS Test WD
[edgar@arch USB_Storage]$ cd Test
[edgar@arch Test]$ vim testfile.txt
[edgar@arch Test]$ ls -l
total 1
-rwxr--r-- 1 edgar users 16 Jul 23 07:47 testfile.txt
[edgar@arch Test]$ cat testfile.txt
This is a test.
[edgar@arch Test]$ rm testfile.txt
[edgar@arch Test]$ cd ..
[edgar@arch USB_Storage]$ rm -r Test/
[edgar@arch USB_Storage]$ ls
BACKUPS WD
However I want to copy large files with cp -ruv from my arch machine to the NAS.
This is where the trouble lies. Thanks for your help.

Clean install mavericks failed. No bootable USB drive either. Help please.

HI guys I really would appreciate some help here.
i Saw on apples site how to do a clean install of mavericks. In disk utilities I erased my osx drive and began The download of a fresh copy. I didn't back up my files as I was going to manually install my applications etc. When the download finished and it tried installing mavericks it failed, I restarted as it was the only option and it failed again. I ran disk repair and it said everything was ok. I only have Internet access at the cafe near where I live so only have it during the day. I checked online with my iphone for similar troubles and found everyone mentioning making a bootable USB version but... As it did not say that on the mac website where it showed how to erase and install a clean copy I never made a USB copy. I'm left with my macbook not able to install my os. Please can anyone advise, I have no way of getting to a Genius Bar and there is no mac service repairs in my area.
I'm now using Internet recovery. I rebooted with option-command-r. A globe came up, I am now downloading mountain lion. Is this the right procedure now or am I wasting time as I only have a few hours left in the cafe with my macbook on? Thank you in advance.
Gregg
ps- I had mavericks up and running on my previously but wanted to basically clean my system of preference files, unwanted folders etc etc. Lesson learnt. I just need advice on the steps I must take to have my system working again .

What you are doing now is the correct procedure, install the Mac OS X that came on the machine. From that you can have a working machine and then install Mavericks again.
Building a bootable/installable Mac OS X on a USB drive is time consuming and not necessary for most users...it is not difficult but it takes time and precision to get it right. Perhaps something to do in the future when you have the time.
Using a coffee shop internet connection is not a good idea for installing Mac OS X...you need a good, solid internet connection to do that, one that is reliable and offers sufficient bandwidth. But you don't have much option at this point since you say an Apple store and the genius bar is not available to you.
Finish the Mountain Lion install, reinstall your applications, get the Mac up and running well, then do the Mavericks install on top of the Mac OS X you have.
You would do well to get an external hard drive, great ones are available from OWC http://www.macsales.com and make a good backup of your entire system as soon as you are finished installing Mac OS X. If you make the external a bootable copy, such as by cloning with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, you can always have a working computer...life will be much easier with that.
Good luck building Mountain Lion, and get the system running again before upgrading Mac OS X

Lenovo ideapad u510 w/Fedora 19 Live USB black screen

I am having difficulty with a new lenovo ideapad u510. I am attempting to install Fedora 19 using the Fedora 19 xfce spin Live USB image, and the drive boots properly, but upon selecting the option to start Fedora 19 Live, I get a gray screen with a cursor on the top left, then two error messages that look almost idential to each other flash by, the Fedora logo starts to load, and then the screen goes blank.
The part of the error message that I was able to make out was "...failed to enable the AA(?????)"
I have attempted to turn the monitor back on using the F9 key's alternate function, and I have tried booting from DVD with the same result. Once the screen goes blank, it stays that way until I force the machine to shut down. Once I've forced the shutdown, the computer, upon turning back on, goes to the blank screen again without even loading the lenovo BIOS screen. Even the 'novo' button will not load any options for me.
My UEFI is set to Legacy / Legacy First, although the EFI setting is still Windows 8, with no alternate options. I've looked all through my settings in every tab of the BIOS and I can't find anything further to disable secure boot.
Is anybody able to assist me in installing Fedora?
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Follow up:
I have tried more flavors of linux, and over the course of doing that, I have discovered that after choosing to boot a linux live disk, the screen does not instantly go black as I had thought with the Fedora installation, but rather is reduced to 1/4 the physical size of the screen for a few seconds, then goes blank. After it goes blank, apparently, the live OS continues to load, as evidenced by the loading .wav sounds that play even after the screen is blank.
More and more I'm convinced that the graphics hardware is causing problems, but the lenovo site is completely silent about the specifics of the graphics, saying only that the hardware is nvidia GeForce series.

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