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[Jim Householder]

Timothy White wrote:
> Kev wrote:
> 
>>
>> I have Debian Sarge in at the mo, but it won't recognize my sound card
>> or my video card properly.  Sound ->  CMedia 8738 6 channel LX
>>                             Video ->  Nvidia Riva TNT2 32meg.
>> The OS/2 driver I use for sound is in fact a port of ALSA and is
>> arguably the best sound card for OS/2.  All of the card's capabilities
>> are supported.  Sarge will only allow me max of 800 x 600 @ 64K
>> colours video.
> 
> 
> Have you tried alsaconf (IIRC) to see if you can get the sound card
> working. This would require alsa to be compiled into the kernel.

I've had sound card problems as well.  My solutions have been:
1.  line-in and mic can be set to output for surround-sound.  Line-in was set to output by default.  Change it to input.
2.  changed driver.  i810-audio works for me, but is not what MDK gives me by default.

HTH
Jim