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.