thanks and success

David Poehlman poehlman at clark.net
Thu May 25 17:48:55 EDT 2000


my soundcard is built into the mother board.  it is a crystal sound card
which I don't know much about I'll admit but if someone would provide me
with instructions, I could probably follow them.
Thanks!

Jacob Schmude wrote:
> 
>         You have the sound drivers, they're not loaded, though. The
> included sound drivers are the OSS/Free drivers, and fairly
> primative. They'll work fine for basic sound playing, though. What sound
> card do you have? If you've got an SB live, you'll need to install the
> ALSA sound drivers. Even if your card is supported by the included
> drivers, the ALSA ones are better anyway.
>         If your sound card is plug and play, there's another problem. If
> you're not technically inclined, it'll be rather hard to set up plug and
> play. This would be another reason to get ALSA sound drivers, as they have
> plug and play built in. Most ISA sound cards are plug and play. If the
> card is PCI and is plug and play, I don't know how it works for setting
> that up. Plug and play just means auto-setting up of IRQs and such
> parameters, so you don't have to change dip switches or jumper blocks on
> the card.
> 
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, David Poehlman wrote:
> 
> > I'm using zipspeak.
> >
> > Kirk Reiser wrote:
> > >
> > > Hmmm, then it depends which distribution you are using whether the
> > > sound drivers are included by default.  I suspect they may not be.
> > >
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