Audigy sound card - no sound

[NoOp]

On 04/08/2008 05:04 PM, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
> NoOp spake thusly:
> 
>> On 04/05/2008 10:46 AM, Phil Sexton wrote:
>>> I have a Soundblaster Audigy card that has worked "out of the box" with
>>> Fedora Core, but I have no sound in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have any hints for configuring this card?
>>> 
>>> I have installed the files that I have found by searching synaptic for
>>> "audigy" that it returned.
>>> 
>>> 
>> You might find these helpful:
>> 
> [ snip ]
> 
> Actually, the point is that somehow Fedora has MAGIC that nobody else 
> does.
> 
> If the same card "works out of the box" in Fedora 9 (Beta) it should work 
> in Ubuntu (or anyone slse).
> 
> All things being equal, I much prefer Ubuntu to Fedora but Fedora seems 
> to be the only "fresh" distro of late to be able to detect o a card with 
> one of the largest user bases on earth.
> 
> Fedora 9 - Check
> 
> Ubuntu 7.10/8.04 - NO
> 
> Mandriva 2008.0/2008.1 - NO
> 
> Debian Lenny - NO

Perhaps you missed this:

<quote>
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/Soundblaster_Audigy_c10028.html
[shows working w/7.10 out of the box]
</quote>

So according to that Soundblaster Audigy *works out of the box* for
some. But apparently not for the OP, so that is why the added links were
provided.

> 
> Or I could always go back to Windows where sounds works just fine...
> 
> *sigh*

You could indeed...