From: "Charlie M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> October 4, 2003 07:10 am, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote:
> > Has anyone had any success getting the Audigy 2 sound card to work on
> > MDK 9.1?
> > I have one in a new Dell 8300 and it doesn't work at all.
> > I have Goggled for answers and it looks like this card is not supported
> > by Linux.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Call Dell and scream for a replacement for the card. The version "OEM-ed"
for
> Dell has been crippled and won't use the audigy2 drivers.
>
> Seen it before and had to yell until the customer was sent a replacement.
I
> don't remember the details, but I know a Dell supplied OEM Audigy2 ain't
the
> same as an off the shelf version.
>
> Ah, here we are. Copied from a bugzilla report that confirms what I
thought I
> remembered <g>:
>
> "The problem with Dell's Sound Blaster Live is that their new computers
> ship with sound cards that have the DSP chip crippled so that all sound
> processing functions take place in software rather than hardware (like a
> WinModem).  Creative and Dell have no solution to this, but I got Dell to
send
> me a replacement Sound Blaster Audigy 2."
>

Would someone with one of theese Dell systems with cripled audigy2 dsp send
me the output of lspcidrake -v...
If we can't get it to work normally, maybe we can work around the problem
with it...

Regards

Thomas




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