From: "Charlie M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > October 4, 2003 07:10 am, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: > > Has anyone had any success getting the Audigy 2 sound card to work on > > MDK 9.1? > > I have one in a new Dell 8300 and it doesn't work at all. > > I have Goggled for answers and it looks like this card is not supported > > by Linux. > > > > Thanks. > > Call Dell and scream for a replacement for the card. The version "OEM-ed" for > Dell has been crippled and won't use the audigy2 drivers. > > Seen it before and had to yell until the customer was sent a replacement. I > don't remember the details, but I know a Dell supplied OEM Audigy2 ain't the > same as an off the shelf version. > > Ah, here we are. Copied from a bugzilla report that confirms what I thought I > remembered <g>: > > "The problem with Dell's Sound Blaster Live is that their new computers > ship with sound cards that have the DSP chip crippled so that all sound > processing functions take place in software rather than hardware (like a > WinModem). Creative and Dell have no solution to this, but I got Dell to send > me a replacement Sound Blaster Audigy 2." >
Would someone with one of theese Dell systems with cripled audigy2 dsp send me the output of lspcidrake -v... If we can't get it to work normally, maybe we can work around the problem with it... Regards Thomas
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