On 2/26/06, Victor Odhner <
vodhner@cox.net> kindly wrote:
> Yup, it's getting so you're out of luck if you want to run
> Linux on old computers, a recent Slashdot posting to
> the contrary . . . unless I want to get into the ALSA cvs
> repository and spend a few hours in hopeful hacking ...
> but that's what I do for a living, and we should be past
> that for a driver (snd-sb16 for Sound Blaster 16 ISA)
> that used to work and is now orphaned even in distros
> that used to have it.
>
> Just felt like venting. I'll do the cvs thing when I have a
> few hours of cultural time (ha!). And my friend calls me
> every few days asking if his computer is ready yet . . .
> No, he can't cut into his ramen-noodles budget to buy a
> new sound card.
Have you tried Vector or one of the distros that's optimized for older
hardware? I think Vector and Slackware still use an older 2.4.* kernel by
default. Maybe it would have drivers for older hardware. I dunno...
Siri Amrit
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