Re: Universal sound card?

Stephen Gonedes staggered into the Black Sun and said:
mike <spamme9@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
I need a universal sound card. One that will run on any of the
LIVE-CD linux versions. So, [it] has to automatically run with
whatever is on the linux live CD. I've been using an ISA
soundblaster 16.
I hear that one. I still can't toss mine (not that I ever toss
anything)

Why do you need to run multiple LiveCDs here? Are you testing them out
or something? The thing to do is to pick a distro, figure out how to
use it, and put it on a local disk. Not only is it faster than almost
every LiveCD, it's also much more customizable.

Have any x86 motherboards with ISA slots been made in the last 6 years?
ISA was obsolete in 2000 and will shortly be uninteresting to everyone
except computer archeologists.

What are my options?
I've had luck with SB-Live! C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738, and an
ACL97 but the ACL97 has been a problem for many others.

I have an old ES1371 PCI card that works perfectly, and the ES1371
module has been a part of vanilla kernels since 1999. Cards with this
chipset were often sold as "soundblaster PCI 128".

Good luck, the more crap they paste to the motherboard the more
complicated it is using and disabling them devices.

The last 2 motherboards I've used both had integrated i8x0 sound chips.
Both have worked just fine, but the only time I use LiveCDs is for
installing distros or resizing partitions. Why would you need to
disable onboard sound to use another PCI sound card?

Might be cheaper to buy a modem and a 686.

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