On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:03:18PM +0100, Q wrote: > Well thanks.. I would certainly appreciate any help anyone can offer. > Yes I would have to say I agree with you on the Red Hat thing, although > I was anxious not to piss off a lot of Red Hat users, particularly as > this set up did work for sound in Red Hat. But I just couldn't cope with > the dependency hell of Red Hat or any other RPM based distribution, so I > started looking for an easy to manage distribution that would let me > install and unistall software and updates without any of that hassle. > Gentoo portage was that magic formula and after using it for a short > while I was permenantly won over. It is a little ironic maybe that the > easiest to use package management system in the Linux world comes > included in the hardest to install linux distribution in the Linux > world. (Slackware is nothing compared to Gentoo...) But oh well there > you are. The end result is certainly worthwhile. It may have taken me a > while to get my head around it, but persistance pays dividends and I > came out of it knowing a lot more about Linux than I could have learned > any other way. Red Hat apt-rpm that elimintates the dependency problem. I am not promoting Red Hat. I just think all distros are really the same once you learn them and there differences. If that made any sense. I would first do: cat /proc/asound/cards to atleast see if you card is listed before you procede further. Jeremiah > > But as I said, I have never had sound and full 3D video working in any > distibution I have tried (which is about eitht I think). right now I > have every other feature working sweetly - except sound... > > If I could have sound I think I would celebrate by wiping all my windows > partitions and instantly switching my 460GB of music, movies and games > over to ext3 partitions. I want to be done with Windows and MS by this > years end. Having sound would be a big step towards this goal. > > Q > > PS > > As for SPDIF cable. That isn't really an issue. I have high quality > optical cable, which although in terms of benefit is probably only of at > best an aesthetic value, at least gurantees a clear signal. (I assume > you know that difference between optical and coaxil digital out is > virtually irrelevant? In other words, it doesn't matter which of these > is connected to the SPDIF out). > > Again any input anyone can offer on this would be much appreciated. It > would for me be the culmination of a long held goal now (of over a year) > to have both sound and video fully working in Linux. > > Q > > dwillis@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Q wrote: > > > > > > > >>As for installing Red Hat, well I am a Gentoo Linux user... For better > >>or for worse that is what I am... It has taken me 4 months to get Gentoo > >>set up (its only rival in terms of difficulty to install is I think > >>Linux from Scratch) and after having gotten everything else working, I'm > >>not in the mood to give up now. > >> > >> > > > >four months? i discovered gentoo september 19 and have everything that > >i need set up now (and today i discovered i can use cooledit96 under > >wine!). redhat sucks. suse is great for easy use. > > > >anyway, i've got the same audio chipset, as well as an audiophile 2496, > >but my motherboard (kt400-alh) has analog 5.1 output, no digital. i can > >try to see if that option works under linux, thoough, if you think it will > >help you. > > > >also, make sure you are using a proper spdif cable (75 ohm, i think), and > >not just any rca cable as it won't work. i wish i could find one of those > >here in korea. > > > >ffiw, > >dave > > > > > > > > > > >
