[KLUG Members] Re: LindowsOS coomputers

Bruce Smith members@kalamazoolinux.org
05 Jan 2003 09:44:26 -0500


> > > > I'll probably be loading Redhat on the Walmart PC sometime soon.  I can
> > > > let the list know how it goes.
> > > 
> > > That'll be good! :-)
> > 
> > Okay, I installed Redhat 8.0 (BSware) on the $199 Walmart PC yesterday.
> > 
> > The only issue I found is sound doesn't work.  Redhat said it found the
> > sound card chip and installed the drivers, but no sounds comes out.
> 
> Same thing happened on my dad's system when we installed the same distro
> there last week. I'll need to phone him up and ask him about his again,
> but what card does it say yours has?

It said it was some VIA AC97 chip.  I don't remember the exact number.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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