On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 05:05:52PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote:
> I've just recently upgraded my motherboard (the new CPU I got didn't work
> on the old motherboard <sigh>), and as such I'm having a few hassles with
> Linux doing some things.
>
> The motherboard has a few things inbuilt (yukkie, but it was all I
> could afford). Namely a soundcard and a video card. The video card
> problem was sorted out by a short visit to xfree86.org, so I am not having
> any hassles there, but I've got a few hassles with linux recognising my
> soundcard. The onboard soundcard is a ESS style (not sure on the actual
> number, but it the win95/98 driver is for the ESS-SOLO1), it's PNP under
> Win98 but isapnptools doesn't recognise it as being there for pnp mode.
> I've read through the kernel documentation and it noted that for some ess
> cards you need to load some code before the soundcard can be activated.
> Is this required for my soundcard? If so, where do I get this code from?
>
[...]
I have a laptop with a ESS soundcard and it appeared to be
100% soundblaster compatible. This means you can use the kernel
drivers....
Hope this helps.
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Joop Stakenborg PA4TU, ex-PA3ABA
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Linux Amateur Radio Software Database
http://radio.linux.org.au
