[NCLUG] Gateway MT6916

[DJ Eshelman]

Almost every sound device since the mid 90's has a SoundBlaster compatible
driver.  It doesn't yield good sound, but it's very often worked for me.

Just force Windows to use it's various SoundBlaster drivers until one
works.  Also quite often trying the myriad of Intel-based sound devices on a
laptop often works.  I'd find out what chipset it uses and that should
usually tell you what to try - or even bypassing the OEM and going direct to
the source manufacturer sometimes works for these drivers.

And just so you know- running a VMWare image for XP works better with a
Linux-based host than the other way around.  Just make sure you re-install
VMWare whenever you update your Kernel  (it's a perl script that 90% of the
time is able to re-compile itself properly).

Just an idea :)

-DJ

On Jan 2, 2008 10:46 AM, Marcio Luis Teixeira <marciot at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 05:18:16PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > > Vincent Randal wrote:
> > > >Question: Is there a way to make the Linux sound driver work in
>  Windows XP?
> > > >Kind of like the reverse of a Windows NDIS driver working in Linux
>  via
> > > >ndiswrapper maybe?
> > >
> > > It's extremely unlikely.
> >
> > I think that's putting it mildly.  I'm about 99.99% certain that
>  there's
> > nothing of the kind out there.
>
> Hum... wouldn't running Windows in VMWare under Linux allow Windows XP to
> use a Linux sound driver?
>
> Sorry, useless suggestion, but I couldn't resist :)
>
> -- Marcio
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com>
> To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group <nclug at nclug.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 10:26:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Gateway MT6916
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 05:18:16PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > Vincent Randal wrote:
> > >Question: Is there a way to make the Linux sound driver work in
>  Windows XP?
> > >Kind of like the reverse of a Windows NDIS driver working in Linux
>  via
> > >ndiswrapper maybe?
> >
> > It's extremely unlikely.
>
> I think that's putting it mildly.  I'm about 99.99% certain that
>  there's
> nothing of the kind out there.
>
> --
> CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
> John Kenneth Galbraith: "If all else fails, immortality can always be
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