Re: [Sheflug] Re: sound cards for Red Hat Linux 6.2?

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:19:28PM +0100, Richard wrote:
> As a general rule I've found that Red Hat doesn't like sound cards.  I
> have come across people who have been able to get RH to produce sound
> but they have been few and far between.

	sndconfig is quite a good tool unless you have a new and flashy
card. I have always relied on it, and has never failed. 

> I'd suggest the following.  Get a cheap sound card from Maplin
> Electronics. Don't spend money on hardware it's a waste of time. 
> Other thing is download and try to install either Alsa or OSS.  If you
> can get these to work with RH then that's much better than the RH
> sound config tool.

	You might want to have a look at http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon
which describes the cards supported by ALSA. Beware of cheap cards, as
some of them might not be supported: I have a special offer for an ALS
4000 which won't be supported by ALSA. Also, check the kernel sources to
see which cards are happy with the kernel directly. This will save you
installing ALSA, which I usually find annoying, and better to be avoided
:D

	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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