On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:18:48 -0700 Landis McGauhey <b3zdomny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, all, > > 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 In somewhat gambling style try a, say, 4-5 year old Live CD. I think they can still be downloaded, try the ibiblio.org archive, for example. An old KNOPPIX or MEPIS might quite well serve the purpose. 10 or so years ago I had my SB ISA card working under Linux, though I do not exactly remember the card type. Regards, Sergei. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
