On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:42:20 +0100 Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know this has been covered before, but I am just doing a periodical > check to see if anyone has solved it in the meantime. Many do seem to > get sound on laptops now, so there is hope... > <snip> > > It would be really nice if someone knows how to make it sing, as I > am getting tired of telling Doze users that the only reason my > computer cannot play cds is that I haven't any need to and haven't > had time to configure it. Actually both statements are untrue :-( I have several old Thinkpads of Pentium II & III vintage, and have found with recent kernels that sound (and other things too!!) support kind of comes and goes. It would seem that kernel developers all have nice shiny new machines. To solve most of my sound card headaches I bought a pair of USB headphones, and a pair of high-quality USB speakers. I have also found that if I blacklist the module for the internal sound card, when I plug in a USB sound device it becomes the one and only default sound device, and almost all software talks to it just fine. (Getting some software to talk to a USB sound card in the second position is non-trivial....) Just a thought. Clayton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
