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

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:46:20PM +0100, poma wrote:
> 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?

not yet... I do have 2 of the cards, though, and both used to work,
though not in that motherboard. I'll try the other card and get back
to ya, as well as the other PCI slot.

> Linux won't magically fix that card if it is defective, you know.

What? And here I thought it was all magic! :)


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