Greetings. I've recently switched to Debian (from LinuxPPC (home) and RedHat(work)), and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. I installed from the O'Reilly disk, and then did an update to frozen (I think I even got it mostly correct!).
I'm currently trying to get my SoundBlaster PCI128 card to work, and I'm on my seventh kernel compile, and I'm starting to pull my hair out. The damn thing won't work! I'm basically a Mac person/PC hardware loser, so I'm afraid there's some basic thing I'm missing. Any help or pointers welcomed, and please don't hesitate with insultingly simple ones, either. One thing, however: there is no M$ OS on this box, and I really have no access to an M$ OS -- which has been part of the trouble. Most of the HOWTOs I've found tend to fall back to DOS for trouble shooting, and that won't work for me. Specifics: frozen/potato, updated afternoon of 4 Feb 2000. Installing 2.2.14 kernel, using kernel-package method as outlined in README. Have tried several combinations of sound in kernel/as module, ES1371 in kernel/as module, and OSS SoundBlaster drivers, in kernel/as module. Based on the output of 'lspci -n', this is a ES1371 card, so I haven't tried the es1370 driver. Should I try ALSA? Hardware: Celeron 400A, Abit BE6-II, Trident 3D Image 975 AGP card, SoundBlaster PCI128 in PCI4, generic ISA hardware modem in ISA slot. Thanks in advance, john. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.genehack.org <----- GeneHack (bioinfo*linux*opinion)
