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

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

>From: "Ian Wright" <Ian [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>I've had no trouble getting sound cards to work with Redhat and currently
>have systems with both RH5.2 and RH6.2 on making lots of noise. 

I checked (needed to run sndconfig first time I booted with the card in) and
the SB PCI128 worked with an Ensoniq driver that RH came up with.  But "lots
of noise"?  No.  A little noise.  I have to turn my speakers right up; under
windoze I get plenty of volume.  I couldn't find any way to turn the volume
up--can the driver be tweaked or configured in some way?

I guess whether sound cards work under RH must be heavily influenced by the
rest of the hardware setup.  

>The
>soundcards I am currently using with these systems are cheapo SB compatibles
>and an Ensoniq which I also used previously in a Mandrake 7 setup.
>Admittedly RedHat doesn't always detect ISA soundcards automatically at
>setup time but if you run 'sndconfig', this has never failed to setup the
>soundcards effectively and automatically.

cheers,

Matt.

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