Audigy sound card - no sound

Phil Sexton philsexton at skybest.com
Wed Apr 9 14:59:08 UTC 2008


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

My card won't work in Windows, just in Fedora Core (and I assume Red 
Hat).

I'm still working on it.

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