On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 00:44, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:43:43PM -0500, Jonathan S wrote: > > > > you shouldn't need a new sound card, but who knows, this is what happend to > > me and my nVidia board no doubt, I installed drivers, and suddenly fedora > > tells me it doesn't support my onboard sound. > > Sound and modem cards can be a pain. Many do not have open source drivers. > I have a nifty Turtle Beach card and only one channel is usefull on Linux. > They are unwilling to expose how their DSP works. Many modem cards are > sounds cards with DSP code in them that may be copyright. > > There is a hardware matrix out there. > Jonathan, You may have been bitten by the thing that gets some people with on-board devices vs adapters. They do not necessarily use the same bios or drivers even if the system reports the devices as identical. A good example of this is what adaptec tells users about their scsi adapters. They explicitly release code for the bios on the adapter, but the *WARN* users to *NOT* use that code on cards that are made using the adaptec chips, but manufactured by someone else. It can break the card if not made by adaptec. The same applies in some cases with devices that are built-in on the mobo or made by a different manufacturer. The core chips are the same, but the overall device is different so the same bios/drivers may/may not work. -Jeff
