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Yay! I can haz sound!
Feb. 12th, 2009 04:27 pmI finally got around to sticking an old sound card into the Compaq Presario I've been playing around with Linux on.
It has built-in sound, but Kubuntu hadn't found it. I'd found some troubleshooting tips that gave instructions that might get it working, but they were kinda ugly. And for a different model anyway.
So I stuck the card in. Reassembled the box and hooked the cables back up Including moving the speaker cable to the new jack.
Powered up and went to work on the main Windoze box while waiting, And I was startled be the startup "tune" from the Linux box.
Seems it autodetected the new card. Great.
Even played the sound halfway decently in a Youtube link in someone's LJ. The video was a bit jerky, but that could have been lag time. And besides, this *is* a 300 Mhz Pentium system we are talking about.
Still, that means that it's quite usable for various things now. Next trick is to get it to network well with the Windoze boxes and transfer a bunch of files from an EXT3 formatted USB external drive so I can reformat it to something I can use for backups on the Windows systems.
It has built-in sound, but Kubuntu hadn't found it. I'd found some troubleshooting tips that gave instructions that might get it working, but they were kinda ugly. And for a different model anyway.
So I stuck the card in. Reassembled the box and hooked the cables back up Including moving the speaker cable to the new jack.
Powered up and went to work on the main Windoze box while waiting, And I was startled be the startup "tune" from the Linux box.
Seems it autodetected the new card. Great.
Even played the sound halfway decently in a Youtube link in someone's LJ. The video was a bit jerky, but that could have been lag time. And besides, this *is* a 300 Mhz Pentium system we are talking about.
Still, that means that it's quite usable for various things now. Next trick is to get it to network well with the Windoze boxes and transfer a bunch of files from an EXT3 formatted USB external drive so I can reformat it to something I can use for backups on the Windows systems.
