:Chicago Tribune: Linux Corner: No noise from your speakers? Here's sound advice
Chicago Tribune: Linux Corner: No noise from your speakers? Here's sound advice Sep 4, 1999, 14 :33 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (4785 reads) (Other stories by V. Navratilova) (As seen on linux.com)
"So you finally took the plunge
and installed Linux on your
machine. You've proven your
guru-dom by configuring X-Windows properly and have even
started to surf the Net, but when you go to play XBoing or
Quake, you aren't hearing anything from your speakers. That's
probably because your sound card has not been configured."
"Configuring a sound card under Linux is an obscure task that
hasn't been automated by any Linux distribution other than Red
Hat, which attempts to configure SoundBlaster cards
automatically."
"To configure other devices such as a CD-ROM or a modem
under Linux, you'd simply recompile the kernel with support for
that specific device enabled, but sound cards are a little trickier.
Currently, configuring the sound card under non-Red Hat
distributions requires that you know the DMA, IRQ, I/O
address and MPU I/O address of the card. These aren't things
that are readily apparent, so the process involves two phases:
reconnaissance for sound card information and then using that
information to compile sound support into the kernel."
