Hello,
Does anyone have experience getting a CMI 8338 chip sound card to work with
Linux. Supports lists the CMI 8330 chip but not the 8338. I've tried every
card driver in the list and no luck. I do get some trace of sound with a
few of the choices, but I have to turn the speakers on full power and I can
barely hear it. I have a couple ESS boards coming in the mail this week, so
I'll probably switch to one of those.
I gave up on getting the SiS5597 on-board video to work and switched to a
ATI Mach 64 2Mb PCI. I did try using the XFree86 3.3.5 but when I run
XF86Setup, I couldn't get it to work...couldn't get it to reconfigure back
to VGA16...so I end up reinstalling Linux each time. The ATI card works
well except I can't figure out how to change resolution. I'm currently at
1024x768x16bit. Do I use xf86config? Whenever I run this program I seen to
get problems as a result. This program asks for monitor information "free
form" and when I put my monitor info in, I get errors relating to monitor
selection on restart. When I installed Mandrake, I was give a list to
choose from, but in xf86config, I get no list...thus the info I put in is
aparently invalid. How do I use xf86config just to change one thing, or
can't I? What info do I use for the monitor (I can't remember the list
verbatim)? Can I use "CUSTOM"?
I also have a problem with the modem, which I believe is a winmodem as it is
somehow tied to the sound card (probably for voice functions). If I disable
the onboard sound, I loose the modem too. So I have picked up a Zoom V.90
modem also. I hope that once I put the ESS sound and Zoom modem in, I'll be
full functional.
Thanks,
Tony Z.
