Re: [newbie] sound card advice
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:48, Scott wrote: On Sunday 23 June 2002 12:28 am, you wrote: 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 From the output, any hope of getting the onboard sound working in 8.1? Thanks, SW Heres mine: VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] This is the model: quoted from harddrake. 8.2 found and installed it perfectly on install. The KDE load up sound just about made me soil my undies. It had been that long since i had heard anything. Really not sure about differences between a *586 and *686 board. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound card advice
On Sunday 23 June 2002 12:28 am, you wrote: 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 From the output, any hope of getting the onboard sound working in 8.1? Thanks, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound card advice
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 -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound card advice
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. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound card advice
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound card advice
On Saturday 22 June 2002 03:42 pm, Scott wrote: me: 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 That's a polite way to put it, ie, unpleasantness :) I've got a Soyo mboard with onboard AC97 (VIA). I have a bios setting (actually 2) to try'n kill it. This works, but it won't then completely enable an old AWE64 (isa) Soundblaster I tried to get workin again. Both Winblows98 or Mandrake 8.x Most ready made systems (like your Compaq) don't allow/have needed bios options, even some good hardware has a hard time overcomin win-hardware crap. Best solution (tho the trend is against it), is not to buy win-orientainted-hardware in the first damn place. I knew better when I bought an otherwise good motherboard but it's gettin real hard lately not to settle for Billy- tainted-hardware. This is M$'s real crime. Another fault is that Linux sort'a sux when it comes to sound. I'm back to usin onboard AC97 with ALSA system wide, and forcin some apps that don't like ALSA (mplayer, xmms), to use OSS. aRts is history in this scenario ;( -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound card advice
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
