I'm using a web interface right now, so I can't see the original post. Is your complaint that the sb16 isn't supported or that your distro didn't ship with the driver? My impression was the former so I was pointing out that it is supported by ALSA. On Tue, February 28, 2006 7:10 am, Victor Odhner wrote: > Gerard Snitselaar wrote: > >>On FC4 this is what I get from modinfo for snd-sb16 : >> >>snits@newton:/home/snits/src/linux-2.6.15.4/sound=>modinfo snd-sb16 >>filename: >> /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1831_FC4/kernel/sound/isa/sb/snd-sb16.ko >>author: Jaroslav Kysela >>license: GPL >>description: Sound Blaster 16 >>vermagic: 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0 >>depends: >>snd-sb-common,snd-opl3-lib,snd,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-sb16-dsp,snd-sb16-csp >>alias: pnp:cCTL0024dCTL0031* >>alias: pnp:cCTL0025dCTL0031* >>alias: pnp:cCTL0026dCTL0031* >>. . . >> >> > Thanks, Gerald. You are apparently right. Although the output of the > modinfo command is a lot simpler on my machine: > > "modinfo: could not find module snd-sb16" > > The output from modinfo is at the moment meaningless to me, except > that it seems to be defining an interface. The hacker in me knows that > it's doable -- everything is doable, if you have the time and the > resilience. > > My complaint is that Linux is not ready for *this* desktop, because > someone else decided that sound card didn't matter any more (as I said, > everything worked just fine with an earlier Kanotix). Only really poor > people on welfare need to use it, and that's just their tough luck. > > So there you have it: My complaint is political, you know, the whole > populist vs. aristocratic schtick. I'm a Bush voter, yet it's the > predominantly liberal/populist Free Software community I see leaving > the poor behind in this case. Ain't nobody consistent on either side, > I guess. There's not enough stuff for everyone, even if it's Free. > > I've been digging through the dollar stores and dumpsters of the net, > looking for an old, used distro that would do this, and all of them leave > something out. So I took the most officially respectable distro I could > find, and am trying to force-fit the sound card. > > I've acknowledged right along that if I want to do the whole cvs, > source, compile business I could probably work this out. Programming > is what I do for a living. If you work all day as a mechanic, do you want > to come home and machine the parts for your grandmother's old > Studebaker, even if you do have a lathe buried under the junk in your > shed and the blueprints are out there somewhere to download? > > My whole complaint is not really on my own behalf. It's just that Linux > could so easily *support* an old sound blaster so that joe sixpack could > just do an install. Here I am trying to do a favor for Joe, and it > becomes > brutally clear to me that a distro that will support his whole machine is > not available, while if I wanted to pay tribute to Redmond I could go out > and buy him XP and it would work. > > I'll probably find time this evening to figure this out. My old lathe > must > be behind that lawn mower that I'm gonna fix some day . . . > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss