mick wrote: >I've been sorting (throwing away, selling, etc, etc) through my >computers and found a neat little Compaq ENS 6300/3.2 slimline desktop >that I've decided to make a Debian box. > >It has an integrated ESS ES1869F Audio Drive chipset. Has anyone had >any experiences with this chipset? Comments on the net would suggest I >would be better off installing a PCI sound card and disabling the >on-board sound.
I would go for option two, if there are no drivers that work in OSS or ALSA. Mainly since, from experience, compaqs seem to be a real pain sometimes. (Weird hardware, etc.) You can get pretty cheap creative-128 pci cards from the computer markets or your local (non-dicksmith,tandy,etc. for rip-off reasons) computer store. - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
