Sound on Sony Vaio

[kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com]

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:07, Olle & Susan wrote:
> A while ago I submitted a posting in reference to sound on a Sony Vaio
> RB30. I cannot find the posting again, but I need to follow up.
> Here goes: I could not get the on board sound to work. The
> motherboard does only have two PCI slots and I did not want to use one
> for a sound card. Anyway, I installed a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 card.
> I am happy to report that everything now works flawlessly with FC3.
> (Mandrake 10.1, for example, hangs on shutdown. Ubuntu will not install.)
> One question though, is there any way to get the shut down button on the
> keyboard to work ?

Did you have to add any packages or drivers to get the SB 5.1 Live card 
working?  Also is this the full name of this particular card (i.e. 
soundblaster always has 14 versions of each main card name with extensions 
like fx, ei, etc..) ?