Brian West wrote: > I have a dell demention 8300 with a soundblaster live 5.1 sound card. > the sound card is detected but does not work lspci and the sound card > detector see the card but alsa appears not to i get a sound server error > when i login. Can you do an lspci -n | grep 1102:0006 If you get an output, then you have one of the Dell variety of Sound Blasters. These are not the same as you buy elsewhere, and I do not believe that they have an Open Source driver. See http://www.alsa-project.org/black.html and http://opensource.creative.com/soundcard.html for details. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | In poker you have to show your hand eventually if @westexe.demon.co.uk | called. So far SCO have with great reluctance shown | only one card, which turned out to be "Mr Bun, The | Baker". -- Electric Dragon on groklaw.net
