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

[Matt Fairtlough <nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

Dear All,

Richard writes:
>
>José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
>> 
>> 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've tried everything with all sorts of cards and it still doesn't
>work. 
>
>Because of this I've stayed away from RH based distros.  Even Definite
>Linux in capable hands wouldn't produce a single note.  That was on
>normal PC hardware.  Nothing unusual.
>
> Soon as I switch to SuSE and OSS there's no problem at all.  Even
>Debian works, not that it shouldn't.

Actually I _think_ that the SB PCI 128 _does_ work with RH (at least it
did with Gentus, which is basically just RH with HPT controller support);
it was win2k that was the problem :-).  But I'll check up on this.  

I've not tried ISA soundcards, only PCI so far.

I'd go back to SuSE but it means more messing about with IDE slots and then
I'm told that their packages are not that compatible with standard RH rpms.
Which is what most people distribute, I suppose.  My ignorance is showing
again.

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions and I'll let you know if I get
any further with sound.

cheers,
Matt.

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