"Michael J. McGillick" wrote:
> Ok. The first thing I saw in here was something about a USB controller,
> or something to that effect. Well, I looked on the back of my machine,
> and I do not have any USB ports.
Many motherboards (the AT ones) have a USB controller onboard, and use
an optional faceplate mounted usb interface. Since it's optional, a lot
of them ship without one. I see a lot of those on standard
motherboards, but usually not in brand name computers (like HP). OTOH,
I don't see a lot of HP's. Find out what kind of motherboard is in the
computer, and attempt to get the USB interface from the manufacturer.
> off the on-board controller. The technician from HP simply said for me to
> put the new controller in, and it would work. How do I get X configured
> for my new card? I'm afraid to start up X, for fear that I might do some
> damamge to either the card or my monitor.
When you configure the SVGA server, you aren't configuring the video
card. The video card is probed when the X server starts. Set up your X
configuration the way you normally would (I recommend the use of
XF86Setup), and try to startx. If it fails, let me know.
> Next, I see the sound card listed, so I ran sndconfig. After all was said
> and done, sndconfig said that my card wasn't supported. Anyone else have
> any luck getting this card to work?
It's not supported in the default kernel. Get the latest source from
opensource.creative.com (you want emu10k1) and try to build the current
snapshot. Last time I tried (a while back) the build was broken, but it
should be fixed by now. It shouldn't be any more trouble than "make".
MSG
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