If Nick is using the box I think he is using then I can confirm that the isa sound card seemed to work with some distros but not others (easily). I used the same machine as a Gentoo server without the need to have sound but the bios must be OK for some distros to work "out of the box".
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 17:51 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:52, Nick Rout wrote: > > Getting into the bios requires setting up a couple of floppies, the > > images for which are contained in a dos executable (bloody compaq GRRRR) > O I C, my sympathies! > > I assume they are selfextracting archives hidden in .exe files? > If so you can usually extract them on linux using the appropriate unarchiver > as required. cabextract certainly works for the MS so-called 'cabinet' files. > > I have a feeling that the BIOS has assumed that the o/s is non-pnp and set up > the card already. I'd suggest ignoring pnp completely, and use the settings > which the BIOS has given it as the module options > > Alternatively you could have a try at changing the settings of the card from > those which the BIOS has set them to and use those new settings as the > options for the kernel module in question. > > I have successfully used that approach with modems. > > > Do I have a dos computer with a floppy drive handy? Well yes I can sort > > that, even if I had to download freedos. > > > > Do I have any working floppies? Always debateable! > > > > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 15:08 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 14:25, Nick Rout wrote: > > > > Can anyone help me get this to go? > > > > > > Have you got the bios setting for a pnp o/s set? > > > > > > -- > > > C. S. > > -- Robert Fisher FishNet Computer Services www.fisher.net.nz
