On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:46:21PM +0800, Clayton wrote: > <snip> > > I have several old Thinkpads of Pentium II & III vintage, and have > found with recent kernels that sound (and other things too!!) support > kind of comes and goes. It would seem that kernel developers all have > nice shiny new machines.
I have a couple of old thinkpads too... > > To solve most of my sound card headaches I bought a pair of USB > headphones, and a pair of high-quality USB speakers. I have also found > that if I blacklist the module for the internal sound card, when I plug > in a USB sound device it becomes the one and only default sound device, > and almost all software talks to it just fine. (Getting some software > to talk to a USB sound card in the second position is non-trivial....) Now that is an interesting idea -- walk round the problem. Thanks for that thought. What software has problems with this, though? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
