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pete_ford
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 Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:44 am Post subject: Identifying old sound card to configure the kernel properly |
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I'm toying with Gentoo on an old PC which has an ISA sound card. Problem is that I don't exactly know what it is: I think its a SoundBlaster 16 rip-off, and I can't decide which sound support option in the kernel config matches.
So far I've built with no sound support but I'd like to get it working.
How might I identify the card (ideally without opening the case) ?
Or is there some fairly generic sound support setting I could use? |
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petrasl
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:40 pm Post subject: Re: Identifying old sound card to configure the kernel prope |
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How might I identify the card (ideally without opening the case) ?
Or is there some fairly generic sound support setting I could use? |
Many ISA sound cards are viewed as a SoundBlaster compatible by the os. The problem is that many sound cards aren't original Sound Blaster : those emulate with the driver a Sound Blaster.
You can install an non UNIX-like os that detect this card ... or play with the RedHat utility "sndconfig" and try all the combinations until you find the good one. If you are luky, sndconfig will probe the true OSS modules.
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Or is there some fairly generic sound support setting I could use?
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Not really for ISA sound cards. Once you get the good model of sound card, read the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide (ALSA substitue OSS with kernel-2.6)
Please come back here and let we know if you get something new getting the sound card working.
luca. |
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pete_ford
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hmm,
it worked out-of-the box when I had slackware on the machine previously.
Shame I didn't make a note of the settings before blowing that away with gentoo... |
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