Linux-compatible Laptop add-on sound cards?

[Jon Pruente]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Jeffrey Watts
<jeffrey.w.watts at gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the chipset?   You might want to dig a bit deeper, it's very possible
> that the chipset is supported, but that auto-detection fails.  Back then a
> lot of those chipsets were very non-standard and you had to manually enter
> in IRQs and so forth.
>
> Jeffrey.

I've had a few older systems that defaulted to muted sound, or
defaulted to sending the output to some crazy non-exsistant output
that didn't exist on the card.  They generally just required a quick
flip of bits somewhere to get on track.  Of course checking dmesg
output and alsaconf, etc. will tell you more of what is going on.

Jon.