Scott wrote: >On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:36 pm, you wrote: > >>On Saturday 22 June 2002 11:58 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: >> >>>Soundblaster? It's about the most well known one around, and >>>although Linux may not support the latest top of the range cards, >>>you implied that you wanted a cheaper, so I would just go for an >>>older sort. They are cheap. As far as easy to configure... >>>auto-detected should be easy enough ;-) >>> >>>Greetings >>>Ralph >>> >>>On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Scott wrote: >>> >>>>Can someone please recommend a decent, fairly cheap sound card >>>>that is easy to configure with 8.1? Using compaq 5220 pc. >>>>Appreciate it, >>>>SW >>>> >>http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hres2.html#Sound >> >> has two links, one for OSS and one for ALSA. Check out both for >>supported devices, but I'd try for a card supported by ALSA. You >>should also take a look inside that Compaq to see if you have >>available pci and/or isa slots, what IRQ's are free, and if the >>Compaq currently has onboard sound... can it be disabled in bios? >>Make sure you don't buy anything that needs closed source proprietary >>drivers. >> > >Looking in my bios, I don't see anything that looks like it disables my >on-board sound. What does that mean? Some sort of unpleasantness I'm sure... >SW > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Well if you have on-board sound it may be posible to use it. A number of ALSA drivers/configurations are non-working at the moment, but often the alternaticve OSS drivers do work. Do you have linux installed already? If so let's see
cat /etc/modules.conf and lspcidrake outputs Just run those in a terminal window, highlight the output with a mouse, then middle-click it onto your mail composition. Civileme
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