On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 18:58, Collins Richey wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:10:02 -0000 (GMT) > "Dhruba Bandopadhyay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I need the card for 5.1 sound with altec lansing ada 995. I do not use > > ALSA and do not wish to either. > > > > Just be aware that in the future you won't have any choice. Maybe as early as linux > 2.6 only the ALSA drivers will be maintained. It's a pain in the butt to set up all > the crappy aliases, but the gentoo doc can help, and it works like a hitch. As I > reported earlier, the kernel drivers flat do not work for my genuine Sound Blaster > 16pci; Read that sentence again; your's could have the same problem. There is > documentation on the ALSA website about the approprite driver to use. > > Good luck
I'm really surprised, my genuine SoundBlaster 16pci setup without a hitch on both Gentoo-1.4rc, Slackware-8.8, and ~9.0. I'm wondering now did they change the chipset on these puppies? -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Mozilla -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
