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January 7, 2000 at 08:22 AM
edward

soundcard problem

by edward . Updated 25 years, 10 months ago

First off, let me say that im totally new to linux,Ive been running windows 95, 98, ect. for many years now, and ive never had a hardware problem i couldnt fix or figure out.
Ive been reading alot about linux, on the web, so i decide to go purchaseit, there were several choices to choose from, i ended up buying, SuSE linux 6.3
Anyways, installation went pretty smooth, i just cant get my sound card to work.
Its a creative soundblaster live soundcard.
My Graphic card is a creative 3d blastertnt2 ultra 32mb, and im not sure how to configure it , i tryed using sax but im not sure what to put when it wants the names of my chipset and memory and clock vendor names or something like that. I set the amount of memory to 32000 and dac to 300..cause it supports it.
I get some lines going up and down on my monitor but its pretty clear.
Back to the sound card..i know i need drivers for it and found some on the linux cd’s and loaded them, and it worked for awile.
Now every time i log on, the xconsole says t

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