dell and sound

[James Wilkinson]

Brian West wrote:
> I have a dell demention 8300 with a soundblaster live 5.1 sound card.
> the sound card is detected but does not work lspci and the sound card
> detector see the card but alsa appears not to i get a sound server error
> when i login.

Can you do an
lspci -n | grep 1102:0006

If you get an output, then you have one of the Dell variety of Sound
Blasters. These are not the same as you buy elsewhere, and I do not
believe that they have an Open Source driver.

See http://www.alsa-project.org/black.html and
http://opensource.creative.com/soundcard.html for details.

Hope this helps,

James.

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