On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:32:46PM +0100, Marc-Olivier Barre wrote: > Mr. Winkler, please, have a seat. > > Your sound card arrived at the hospital badly injured. The doctors > went through every procedures to repair the damage to her. They had to > upgrade the drivers, plug in some new cables, gave her some medicine, > but it seems her condition was too delicate to be handled. Mr. > Winkler, I am sorry to tell you your sound card died this morning. > > Eventually, we will arrange a meeting with a priest, and help you > organise some decent funerals. > > May she rest in Piece. > Amen. But she was only four years old! (sob) Oh well. Any recommendations for a consumer-grade card? My needs are modest: - a place to attach the cable from my CD-ROM - Quake3 can open it using mmap - headphone output sounds tolerably decent - hopefully will last another 4 years or so :) For everything else I use a Delta 66. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com