On Saturday 22 June 2002 05:32 pm, you wrote: > 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
Here's the output: cat /etc/modules.conf pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias eth0 8139too and: lspcidrake agpgart : VIA Technologies|VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3 AGP] 8139too : Accton|SMC2-1211TX unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA [Apollo VP] unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B ACPI Card:ATI Mach64 : ATI|3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133 unknown : Virtual|Hub [] scanner : Seiko Epson Corp.|Perfection 1240U [] BTW, I don't have that scanner running, I didn't know that it was detected. Thanks, SW
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