Linux-compatible Laptop add-on sound cards?

[Monty J. Harder]

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.
>

I once had a sound card that wouldn't work right in Linux unless I booted to
Win98 first, let it initialize the hardware, then WARM-boot the PC to Linux,
where the driver was able to work with it fine.  It may well have been an
auto-detection/Plug-n-Pray issue.
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