On 2003-11-23 at 21:57:38-0600 Tim Sheets <tsheets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am having a problem getting my sound card to be recognized in FC1. > the soundcard is an Aureal Vortex 1 You're screwed; throw it away and buy a different sound card. Aureal was killed several years ago by Creative Labs' inferior products and superior lawyers. There was a petition to get the company to release hardware specs, but some entity bought the IP rights to the remnants of the company, and then promptly disappeared. I bought one of the Aureal Vortex 2 cards years ago, when the only other alternative was Creative Labs and their "Soundblaster Live!" defective pieces of crap. Despite the lack of hardware specs, some intrepid developers had partially reverse-engineered a driver, but the driver was quite buggy; running xmms for any significant period of time would eventually completely wedge your system. Anyway, when Aureal folded, that pretty much killed interest in the reverse-engineered driver effort. I went and bought a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card, and I've been happy ever since. (Even under Windows, Aureal cards are essentially paperweights, as the drivers haven't been updated in years.) -- James Ralston, Information Technology Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
