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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: NEED help with sound
From:       "Chris McClelland" <whiteknight () uswest ! net>
Date:       1998-09-02 3:12:25
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So, there is nothing I can do to make my sound card work with Linux, without
spending money?


>Chris McClelland wrote:
>
>>  This is not about KDE, but I'm hoping the one of you can help me. My
>> sound card is a sound blaster pro compatible, its settings are 220, 5,
>> 1, 4My distribution is RedHat 5.1I type sndconfig, and put in my
>> settings. Then it tells me that it's going to play a sound to verify
>> my settings, I press OK. Then it tells me that "an error was
>> encountered running the modprobe program," then the program quits, and
>> I still can't play sound under Linux. What does this mean, and what
>> can I do to fix it?
>
>The 2.0.xx kernels (RH5.1 comes w/ 2.0.34, though RH has released a
>2.0.35 upgrade) do not fully support Plug&Play sound cards, except
>actual Creative Labs soundcards can be configured w/ RedHat's
>sndconfig.  Compatible cards are, well, often not compatible (they don't
>necessarily use the same hardware registers) ;-).  So you can either get
>a supported non-PnP card, spend the $35 to get a CL soundcard, or spend
>$20 to buy a license for OSS from  4front technologies  for a driver
>that works with many sound cards (you need to check their list).
>
>In general, may I suggest that you download and read the
>Sound_HOWTO.tar.gz , Chapter 3 and Chapter 6.31 are par. relevant.
>
> Regards,
>
>Andreas F. Pour
>MieTerra LLC
>pour@mieterra.com
>
>
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