On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:27:28PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:11:21PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:51:45PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Sound seems to be one of the flakier aspect od Debian. > > > > Sound cards are tricky on Windows as well. Don't know about OS X ... > > its been *years* since I did sound on windows, but it wasn't > easy. IIRC, it involved cracking the case, and either setting jumpers, > or reading irq tables off the thing and trying different > settings... told ya it was *years* > > my experience with sound on linux is spotty, but I find once it works, > it works. fwiw.
One year ago, just before I switched to Linux (I think it was one of the reasons) I had a bad experience with W2k on a i440-BX mobo and a Yamaha OPL3-SA2 (ISA) (pretty standard hw). This card had been Plug and Play, with Windows recognizing it w/o problems and installing the drivers automatically. For some reason I had to take it out and put it back in after some time. Same slot, same Windows installation, but the card would not work again. I tried all could think of, remove drivers, change slot, ... , but no chance. I wiped an installed clean and everything worked again just fine as if nothing happened. With not so standard hardware it can be a real nightmare ... Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
