Some history on the card. The card is a SB Live value edition that originally came in a Gateway 2000 computer that I bought 2 years ago. I have since turned this box into my server/router running Debian. But before I did that I had installed a number of distros on it (RedHat, Suse, Mandrake...) and could never get this card to work in any of them. It always worked great in windows.
When I built my current workstation, (asus K7V mb athlon800 voodoo3 384mb RAM) I moved the card to it. Again, it works great in windows but I still can't get it to work in Debian or any other distro for that matter. The module loads without errors, sndconfig detects the correct card, basically everything that is supposed to happen happens except there is no sound. I'm beginning to wonder if this is one of those "crippled cards" that some manufacturers supply to computer venders at a discount price. Could they have turned this into a "win only" card? Any ideas welcome - Jay Latham
