[GLLUG] Re: one more thing...

[Clay Dowling]

Jolyon Michael Vincent wrote:

>> One finds out what sound card one has by using "lspci -vv", then one 
>> modprobes the appropriate sound module(s).  Debian disdains 
>> "user-friendly" tools like sndconfig for the most part.  Hope your 
>> soundcard isn't on the ISA bus, since that makes things trickier.  
>> Report the results of "lspci -vv | grep -A6 audio" to the mailing 
>> list, and someone can tell you exactly what to modprobe.

What does one do if it is on the ISA bus?  random modprobing isn't a lot 
of fun, and tends to result in a lot of hard booting.  I've got one of 
the old Digilink laptops with a non-PCI sound card.

Clay