[plug] Sound card dramas

[Jon Miller]

Try putting the Sound Card in the Last/Bottom slot (a trick that was told to
me by Creative Tech support) works everytime for me.

-------Original Message-------

From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Date: Tuesday, 12 February 2002 04:16:53
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: RE: RE: [plug] Sound card dramas

I remember having a problem with a sound card with HP Pavilion and W98.

By memory, I had to remove all sound cards from the hardware config, reboot
and then let w98 detect the new hardware.

Hope this helps.

Wayne

> "Clint Carlson" <clintcar at dingoblue.net.au> <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
RE: [plug] Sound card dramasDate: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:13:10 +0800
>Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>
>
>
>> On Tuesday 12 February 2002 14:18, you wrote:
>>
>> > but not my sound blaster live. I then manually edited 
>> > the settings, tested > it and all went as
>> > planned. I then booted back to w2k to prepare to copy some of my
>work
>> > over when lo and behold my sound blaster no longer functioned. 
>
>Ryan Wrote:
>
>> The common thread here is Creative, Linux and Windows, but I'm not
>blaming 
>> Linux. > the Windows drivers don't even come close to > it, so I'm
>> convinced it's the dodgy Windows drivers/Creative stuff.
>
>Crap. Well I am waiting for a reply from creative tech support (they
>guarantee a reply in 48 hrs... how prompt of them) which may shed some
>light on the issue. Or may not. Looks like it's time to crank up the on
>board sound, but no surround sound or EAX ... sniff :-( 
>
>Hmmm I wonder if I can somehow make diablo 2 work in linux... ;-)
>
>Ps. As I am writing this in windoze while I beat my soundblaster with a
>hammer, I am shocked and dismayed to leard that the word spellchecker
>does not recognise 'linux' ... how suprising.
>
>Clint Carlson




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