On 07-Aug-2000 Dale Morris wrote: > After banging my head on the keyboard for hours trying to install my > yamaha oplsax isapnp sound card, I'm ready to give up and buy a pci > card. Any suggestions on what might be the easiest for a debian newbie > to install? I'm not interested in extremely high quality, would like to > keep the price around $50, and in the future will probably get a cd > burner setup installed. I'm currently running kernel 2.2.16 on an ftp > install (there seem to be lots of packages I didn't install using the > 'simple' switch for package selection)
If you get a Soundblaster 16, I suggest making sure it is not the VibraX variety. Apparently, this card will only work on Linux if you use the commercial OSS drivers, and only half-duplex. If you see a SB16 at a very low price, suspect VibraX. -- Andrew
