Soundblaster drivers where, oh where can I get some?

[Steve Cook]

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Brian McKee wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM, J Bickhard <jbickhard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5/20/09, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> <snipo>
>>> Ah ha!  Sounds like Ubuntu isn't seeing your card.
>>> Take a look at 'dmesg' in a terminal screen and/or lshw and see if you
>>> can spot where the OS recognizes your sound card.
>> So I type those into a termanal screen?
>> <snippage>
>>> You could check to see 'plug n play OS' is OFF in the BIOS.  That
>>> might do the trick.
>> So I should turn "Plug and Play OS" on? That might work, it doesn't
>> recognise my TV capture card, either, but it recognises my two network
>> cards.
> 
> That sounds like they are both sharing an IRQ, and ISA and PCI can't
> share IRQ's I believe.
> 
> I suppose you could turn it on if it's off, but I don't know that will
> help.  The reverse is the more common fix.
> 
> Can you manually set an IRQ on that sound card? If so, figure out what
> IRQs are in use by the other hardware and assign it differently.
> It's been a while since I've had to manually massage IRQ's.  IF the
> capture card is also an IRQ issue, changing the slot it's installed in
> *may* help.
> 
> Brian
> 
I’ve played with several old machines with ISA sound cards and never
found an IRQ conflict.  I’ve always had to follow something like the
instructions here
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-sbawe
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsSoundCardsCreativeLabs
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1113459&goto=nextoldest

Steve
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