Re: Steps to Sound
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 aphro@portal.aphroland.org wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'd like to set up sound on my debian system. It is one of those IBM
>> 300GL machines that come with (I think) an onboard sound card.
>> Funny though is that the KDE CD player kscd plays fine when I insert a
>> music CD into the drive.
>> I added sound in my /etc/modules file but this doesn't seem to work.
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>first thing is to determine EXACTLY what kind of soundchip
>is on your soundcard. rip open the system and take a look.
>if its a PCI soundcard you may be able to cheat by downloading
>the demo of the commercial OSS and install it, it may auto
>detect the card and show you what it is, then you can use
>OSS or you can ditch it and keep the info it gave you.
Easier way to find out PCI cards: lspci....
>maybe it will be supported..maybe not..who knows...
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>nate
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