Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I bought a motherboard with the KT133 chipset and AC97 on-board sound. Since > I only had an old SoundBlaster ISA card, and I needed to use the one ISA slot > on the new board for a SCSI scanner card, I decided to give the AC97 chip a > chance. > > Basically I read what I could on the 'net, and found I was spending so much > time looking for the right way to do it, that I decided to go ahead and buy > the commercial OSS drivers. I must say, the process was so easy - filled in > the info on the web site, received the license file within a couple of > minutes and had the whole thing installed inside of 5 minutes. The sound > quality is better than my old SounBlaster 16 card too. Excellent! > > They charge for the basic OSS utility then you pay extra for the module for > your particular sound card/chipset. The cost was 15 USD for each, 30 USD > total. AS you say, probably cheaper than buying a new card. I recently > upgraded to the 2.4 kernel, and was able to download the 2.4-compatible > driver from their website at no charge. >
I'd be interested in knowing _how_ you got it to work on a Debian box? Did you recompile your kernel? According to the OSS docs, "- Debian Linux (most versions) The kernel image shipped with many Debian releases differs from the standard kernels. For this reason OSS will need the sndshield module to be rebuilt in your system. Unfortunately this may fail because the directory structure of Debian differes from all other Linux distributions. " It goes on to refer to how to deal with this under 'Solving "sndshield" version incompatibilities', but never really addresses the Debian situation. I'm thinking that the Soundblaster AWE64 is getting awfully close to ending up in this machine. Monte _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
