Sound Card drivers

Carl Parrish plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 12 Aug 2001 07:11:44 -0700


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>Carl Parrish wrote:
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>>Okay where is the best place to look for a sound card driver? I need on
>>for a Via AC97 chip. Looked on Via's website, looked on Shuttle's
>>website (the maker of the motherboard the chipset is on). They both have
>>RH 6.2 rpms but can't get them to work with my RH 7.0 and they don't
>>have any drivers for either 7.0 or 7.1. Any ideas?
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>>Carl P.
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Craig White wrote:

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>Most of these things will emulate a soundblaster 16 - so I'm kind of
>surprised that they just didn't install the soundblaster drivers and
>load - Rather than pull your hair out though, if you have a spare PCI
>slot, buy one of the $13 PCI generic sound cards at Fry's. RH - kudzu
>identified it on first boot and it worked.
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>Craig
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Okay Craig since it was only $13.00 I decided to give this a try. 
current problem is that when kudzu starts it finds then tries to conver 
the VIA AC97 chip. But that doesn't work (and screws up my boot). is 
there a way to just point kudzu to the new card?

Carl Parrish