I'm working with an older transitional motherboard with a Pentium III processor and that, believe it or not, has two ISA ports and one of them is occupied by the soundcard (this is a non-profit organization-- a church on tight budget-- and thus the older equipment). I loaded Debian 5, 2.6.26-1-686 kernel, Gnome Display Environment, and the printer, display adapter, and NIC are supported just fine. My last challenge is enabling the soundcard.
ALSACONF recognizes the soundcard as "SBAWE Creative SB AWE64 PnP" and completes its work without errors. However, when I try the generic Gnome volume control, it results in the error message "volume ctrl=no volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found".Command ALSAMIXER results in the error message "function snd_ctl_open failed for default: no such device".
I found a post in the archives about this card, but the post is five years old and I think it's obsolete. Any tips on getting ALSA to support this ISA card, or do you think I should just suggest my client get a PCI sound card (several PCI expansion slots are available)? Because the church is on a budget, I really would like to get the ISA card working, to spare any expense.
Any tips or assistance would be appreciated. If you need some output from DMESG, just let me know.
Thanks from North-Central California, USA,
Landis
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