On Saturday 22 June 2002 11:58 am, Ralph Slooten wrote:
> Soundblaster? It's about the most well known one around, and
> although Linux may not support the latest top of the range cards,
> you implied that you wanted a cheaper, so I would just go for an
> older sort. They are cheap. As far as easy to configure...
> auto-detected should be easy enough ;-)
>
> Greetings
> Ralph
>
> On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Scott wrote:
> > Can someone please recommend a decent, fairly cheap sound card
> > that is easy to configure with 8.1? Using compaq 5220 pc.
> > Appreciate it,
> > SW

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hres2.html#Sound

   has two links, one for OSS and one for ALSA.  Check out both for 
supported devices, but I'd try for a card supported by ALSA.  You 
should also take a look inside that Compaq to see if you have 
available pci and/or isa slots, what IRQ's are free, and if the 
Compaq currently has onboard sound... can it be disabled in bios?
Make sure you don't buy anything that needs closed source proprietary 
drivers.
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