Re: Sound card and graphics drivers
On Tue, 20 May 2003 21:23:57 -0600
"Brian Gonzales" <gonzales@thuntek.net> wrote:
>
> I'm going to do a fresh install of Debian on a new machine in a few
> days, so I need a little advice on drivers.
>
>
>
> First off, I have a Matrox Millenium G450 graphics card. When it comes
> do adding a driver which do I select (vesa, vga, cirrus, chips...)?
Web searches are your friend.
>From a web search:
http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status18.html#18
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm
> Second, I have a Yamaha sound card. When I run through the installation
> program, I have about 4 different choices for sound cards, but none of
> them work. It's a Y744 soundcard.
>From a quick web search:
http://www.sujal.net/tech/laptop/MyLaptop.shtml -- note the second and third
paragraphs. I looked at the 2.4.19 kernel source (because that's
what I had around) and verified that ymfpci.c supports the YMF-744.
and, should you opt for ALSA,
http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/
-c
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