On Friday September 17, 2004 03:43, Chad Martin wrote: > Tim Fairchild wrote: > > Did you ge a driver from Creative :) They don't supply one? Well, maybe > > some nice guy out there wrote one, maybe not. Maybe you should has the > > hardware supplier about that one.
So that means that I can't choose my hardware based on features and performance? I have to use only hardware built for Linux? Sorry. I just paid about 1600 dollars for this computer and the hardware is fast and reliable under XP. It literally screams. I don't want to buy new hardware just to play with my operating system. :( I appreciate the fact that there are nice guys who write the drivers for free. Maybe they'll have time to get around to mine eventually, or maybe it's out there already. Just gotta get the specific one for the specific versions of all my specific programs, I guess. It's a different way of doing things, to be sure. I just always assumed that you told the operating system what hardware you had and it told the programs in turn. This is going to take some getting used to. > > I know for a fact that the SBLive is supported with an OSS driver in the > 2.4 series of kernels. I forget what the name of the module is, but I > suspect that it's sitting on his computer, waiting to be used. I have a > real hard time believing that an SBLive won't work. I'd be willing to > bet it's the mixer problem mentioned before. > > Chad Martin Well...I've looked and looked. I don't see Kmix anywhere. KDE 3.2.1 I looked through every item in the program list (looks like the start menu in windows) but I can't find Kmix there under any menu. Maybe the unspecified module *is* here, sitting on my computer. Danged if I've seen it and danged if I'd know it if I did since I don't know what it's called and haven't found a reference in Google to it as yet. I still have about a half million hits to go through, though. If I'm understanding you all right, the OS has nothing to do with sound, correct? The sound has to be configured individually for every program that needs it? If that's the case, under which menu item do you find that for, say, XMMS? Is there no universal place to tell the system what sound card you have? I went to the control center (which looks like the control panel in windows) went to sound system, it is enabled and under hardware alsa is enabled(?), I had it set before to autodetect, but apparently it doesn't really mean that since it appears theres no soundcard detected on my system. I'm afraid that Suse is going to have to just sit for awhile until I can either get the registration to work for tech support (it doesn't, I entered the registration code they gave me several times and it says invalid - yes, I do realize it's case sensitive) or I find the one out of the 600,000 or so Google hits that gives me a clear step by step troubleshooting guide. Thanks for the help, but I think I might need more time than I have to get this thing working. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
