Re: [vox] In Memorium

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.oMAPSrg>]

i see this as red hat's fault.  it's the infamous "dot-oh" syndrome.
they should be releasing their dot-oh's as "beta" and simply not market
them at all.

another reason why the debian release system, which still has *some*
faults, rocks so hard.

btw, sound cards are usually not hard to set up.  if the auto-config
ain't working, all you need to do is:

1. type lspci (assuming it's a pci sound card)
2. find the relevent line for the sound card chipset
3. google for the chipset name to find the kernel module name
4. load the proper kernel module in startup script

if that doesn't work, there's an IRQ conflict (i've never seen a DMA or
ioport conflict in my life).  even windows people know how to deal with
IRQ conflicts by shuffling the cards around or tweaking BIOS.

a bit of simplification, but not much of one...

ah well.

pete



begin Richard S. Crawford <rscrawford@mossroot.com> 
> Today my friend BW informed me that he's ditching Linux for good. 
> Together we worked on updating his RH 7.2 installation to RH 8.0, but he
> can't get his sound card recognized, and he is having issues with Red
> Carpet.  So he's moving back to Windows.
> 
> Poor guy.
> 
> RIP:  BW, Linux User: August 2001 - January 2003
> 
> (Personally, I hope that this is just a hibernation period; I went
> through the same thing awhile ago, and I'm all better now.  I promise.)

-- 
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win. -- Gandhi, being prophetic about Linux.

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