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["Andrew Basterfield" <nospam [at] mailandnews.com>]

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From: Ian Wright <Ian [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: (no subject)


> I'm still not making sounds with my Mandrake system which has a similar
> sound card that doesn't seem to have been autodetected - mainly, though,
> because I haven't got any speakers connected!

Sound card will work without speakers, just be a bit quiet :)
It will be autodetected no matter what you have plugged into it (or not)

> Anyway, when I tried to run
> the CD player it gave an error message about not finding a 'mixer module'.
> So, I tried running Lothar which is installed automatically by Mandrake -
> this gave me an IRQ etc for the card. I haven't done any more yet but I
> wonder whether sound is compiled into the kernel by default or not. I
should
> try Lothar (just type this in a terminal window) and let me know how you
go
> on as, when I find a spare pair of speakers, I will have the same to do.

Cool. I will grab the I/Os/IRQ/DMAs with Lothar and feed them as arguments
to the modules.

Thanks

--
If you can't do it well - learn to enjoy doing it badly

Andrew Basterfield
MEng Electronic & Communication Engineering Undergraduate
The University of Sheffield, England
Tel. 0114 222 9999 ex. 53198



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