more compaq 4000 / linux questions.
As long as I have asked one question about getting this Compaq deskpro 4000 (5200MMX) computer with its 200 MHz pentium processor, I might as well go whole-hog and try to get everything working.
Mandrake 9.1 didn't seem to find the ESS 1868 based. Compaq sound card. The Compaq card is a quasi-ISA card. There is a slightly extended ISA socket on the board (labeled Compaq) in which it is installed. I removed that card, put a "vanilla" sound card in the adjacent ISA slot, and rebooted. The Mandrake Control Center (MDC) Hardware tab doesn't seem to find it either.
It does find The PCI video card.
It finds two things that it classifies as "unknown/others": (1) 56K FaxModem Model 5610 --this is the U.S. Robotics "hardware" modem. Why, one might ask, does it say it is unknown when it calls it by name and, with a serial port assigned and a link installed, is able to use it? (2) VT82C586/A/B PCI to ISA (Apollo VP) This on bus 1106:586 at location 0:14:0.
It finds one thing it classifies as "(E)IDE/ATA controllers": VT82C586 IDE (Apollo)" I presume this is for the hard drive.
All of this seems to be there even if I pull the sound cards, so (1) can I get this thing to use the sound card that came with it, or (2) can I get it to acknowledge the installation of some other card?
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Quoted 8 lines · Richard Dawson
Mandrake 9.1 didn't seem to find the ESS 1868 based. Compaq sound card.
The Compaq card is a quasi-ISA card. There is a slightly extended ISA
socket on the board (labeled Compaq) in which it is installed. I removed that card, put a "vanilla" sound card in the adjacent ISA slot, and rebooted. The Mandrake Control Center (MDC) Hardware tab doesn't seem to find it either.
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All of this seems to be there even if I pull the sound cards, so (1) can I get this thing to use the sound card that came with it, or (2) can I get it to acknowledge the installation of some other card?
I'm not so swift on sound configuration under Linux either, and tend to rely on its steadily-improving autodetection and driver/module autoloading for this sort of thing. But I may still be able to say something relevant, as follows. Were I in your shoes, I would get good hardware identification numbers off the two cards (by physically looking at them) and enter those terms into a Google search. I would then select "restrict the search" and enter in the term - yes, you guessed it - "Linux." You will likely get lots of results telling you how other Linux users have fared in trying to use that hardware. If you look extensively enough, you will likely find fairly specific advice for getting that hardware working on your system - if it really is supported by Linux. I'm not trying to say you shouldn't ask here. I'll bet there are people that have some fairly ready answers of a more technical nature than mine who could help. But when I've confornted situations like yours, I've usually started with some basic 'net searching. Hope this helps.
James
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