sound card

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, at 5:15am, n1xoa at yahoo.com wrote:
> The sound card is via ac97, its an onthe mother board sound card.

  AC97 is really a "family" of sound cards, but support for them with Linux
is generally fairly good.

> Running linux 8 ...

  I'm going to assume you mean "Red Hat Linux 8".  (There is more then one
"Linux" in the world.)  If you have something else, let us know.

  What happens if you login as "root" and run the "sndconfig" utility?

> ... as I could not get linux 9 to install that I got from this club at the
> Hosstraderers Swapfest.

  This is a somewhat more interesting.  I would expect Red Hat Linux 9 to
work on any system that Red Hat Linux 8 worked on.  I have to wonder if some
larger problem isn't present.

  What is the brand and model of the system (e.g., "Dell Dimension 4200")?
If it is a "whitebox" or "clone" system, what is the brand and model of the
motherboard?  If you don't know the answer, don't go crazy trying to find
out; there are other things we can try.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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