Hi, Paul!
I knew about the Dell site. However, that driver is for Maestro-2. I don't
know if that will work with my Maestro-3, and I'm reluctant to try. In fact,
when I bought the laptop they said "no drivers for linux available". They
were almost completely wrong ;). Thanks anyway.
Olof
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Need driver for unsupported soundcard?
> "olof.liungman" wrote:
> >
> > Since I'm new to the list this may be common knowledge, but here goes
> > anyway...
> >
> > If you can't find a driver for your soundcard, in my case ESS Maestro-3
on a
> > new Dell Inspiron laptop (Mandrake 7.0-2), check out OSS by 4Front
> > Technologies (www.opensound.com). I looked everywhere but not even ALSA
(is
> > that what they're called?) supported this card. However, OSS did :). The
> > software's not free but its only $20 or so, and you can test it for
free. It
> > says they don't compile explicitly for Mandrake, but it worked for me.
It's
> > not an RPM but the install script solved everything for me, except it
found
> > two cards so I had to remove one using the configure script (menu based,
so
> > it was easy). The readme and install info are good and worth looking
> > through. You have to disable the kernel sound modules, but the install
> > script does that for you, if you let it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Olof
> >
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>
> Hi, Olof! I've got a new Inspiron as well, but with a Maestro-2 card.
> It actually worked fine from the beginning with me. (Something that I
> figure must be because of inspirons also having the option of being
> pre-loaded with Linux.) But if it's not working, check out their
> support website ( i think it is http://support.dell.com ). Choose your
> country, then home office, enter your service tag number (from the
> bottom of the computer) then click the go button, look for the
> "downloads for your system" link, and then either click on the drivers
> link, or probably more valid would be to click on the Linux link. You
> should find the drivers you need there. Hope this helps.
>
> -Paul R
>
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