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Re: whay am I still using windows
>sound blaster one-off
Weell, it's like this: The original Sound Blaster made by Creative has a
proprietary driver development kit that was released to PD more than 1
year ago. This means that the original Sound Blaster is supported since
then, fully. Never models, less so.
Now, there are 3 dozen chip manufacturers who make chips that sometimes
emulate the original Sound Blaster quite well, and always add some sort of
proprietary quirk as sales incentive. I happen to have one of those
myself.
So, a pnp Sound Blaster can be from about 3 dozen manufacturers, can
contain any added 'value' from a coffee mixer to belly dancers and it
still has a mode to run it as a Sound Blaster. This is where the isapnp
tools come in, and copy that configuration out of the chip and into
something that Linux can later use. Now, this is an abbreviation of the
relevant HOWTO. So, the short answer was: RTFM.
Had you done that, then you would have: Run the machine in DOS mode, past
the setup of the sound card, run isapnp, booted under Linux, and installed
the isapnp output there. Simple, no ? I am SURE that the kernel probe
would have found the card after that, without changing it.
The same thing is true for most pnp network cards on ISA. Was that network
card of yours perhaps ISA pnp ? ;)
Peter