Re: Integrated Sound Card... not working

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On 17 Jun 2001 16:23:02 -0400 teg redhat com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) spit
forth:

> Brandon Dorman <brandond lightspeed net> writes:
> 
> > Ummm. even though no one responded at all I figured it out.  On a Red
> > Hat hardware compatibility page I found that my configuration was
> > listed as fully supported but, "there have been reported instances
> > where revisions after level five just don't work with this driver."
> >          In Linux I usually run GNOME but went into the KDE menus and
> > found the Information utitility.  It didn't find a sound card, so I
> > went to the PCI utility.  It showed a revision number of 6.  (cat
> > /proc/pci didn't show that if I remember correctly.)  Anyone know: If
> > I bought a sound card, say a SB 16 which is one sale for like $30,
> > would installing it work?  wouldn't the computer see two sound cards?
> > how could I disable the integrated one?
> 
> The usual scenario is that the sound card is either automatically
> disabled when a new sound card is added or you'll find on/off in the
> BIOS settings. That said, I'd strongly recommend getting a PCI card
> instead of an ISA SB16 - the SB Live! value is cheap nowadays.

Agreed. I've seen PCI boards for under $10, and even have one on my son's
'Doze box. Not state of the art, but works beautifully anyway.

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