Using old Creative CT-4810 sound card in F20 ??

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 20:46:20 UTC 2015


On 19.01.2015 21:04, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 08:20:33PM +0100, poma wrote:
>> On 19.01.2015 19:41, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>> On 01/18/2015 03:02 AM, poma wrote:
>>>> On 18.01.2015 00:33, Fred Smith wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to get an old Creative CT4810 sound card working on my F20
>>>>> machine. I've disabled, in the BIOS, the built-in sound hardware, plugged
>>>>> the creative card into a PCI slot, booted up and lspci shows no sound
>>>>> hardware.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried removing and reinstalling the alsa packages that were currently
>>>>> installed to no avail. perhaps there's another one I need specifically
>>>>> for that card? How to tell?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any advice will be appreciated, thanks in advance!
>>>>>
>>>>> Fred
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> First, the kernel needs to see that device, if it ain't broken in the first place.
>>>> Try move it to another free slot if possible, and or reset the BIOS to its defaults.
>>>
>>> First, I'd try "lspci" and verify that the hardware is actually seen.
>>> If it is, it may be that you need to load a driver or firmware for it.
>>> The kernel may not do it automagically since it's an older card.
>>
>> Rather than repeat what has already been written, go test your C77 with latest & greatest, uncle Pierre is calling you.
> 
> C77 ??
> 
> uncle Pierre ??
> 
> no, lspci doesn't list it (as I think I've said before--if not, my apologies).
> 
> 

Haha, sorry, it was for Rrrrricky!
C77 is GeForce 8200 IGP as part of MCP77 - Nvidia.

So have you tried the other slot, even better on another machine?
Linux won't magically fix that card if it is defective, you know.




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