RE: soundcard

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 07-Aug-2000 Dale Morris wrote:
> After banging my head on the keyboard for hours trying to install my
> yamaha oplsax isapnp sound card, I'm ready to give up and buy a pci
> card. Any suggestions on what might be the easiest for a debian newbie
> to install? I'm not interested in extremely high quality, would like to
> keep the price around $50, and in the future will probably get a cd
> burner setup installed. I'm currently running kernel 2.2.16 on an ftp
> install (there seem to be lots of packages I didn't install using the
> 'simple' switch for package selection)

If you get a Soundblaster 16, I suggest making sure it is not the VibraX
variety.  Apparently, this card will only work on Linux if you use the
commercial OSS drivers, and only half-duplex.  If you see a SB16 at a very low
price, suspect VibraX.


--
Andrew