[CVALE] Best Sound Blaster audio card for Debian Sarge?

[Terry]

Greetings Gaijin !

I have a Sound Blaster PCI 512 card you can have.  It has an EMU10K-1 SFF chip on it.  It should be 
pretty standard for Sound Blaster and for Linux drivers.

Just send me your mailing address to my email address:
terry at zinnianet.net
and I'll ship it to you.

Regarding getting the applications running on your Linux box ...

In the past we had a monthly "hands-on" workshop where CVALErs brought in their equipment and 
problems for the assistance of fellow members.

We haven't done this for a while and need an excuse to get together.  Do you have a way to come to 
Salida with your computer? If so perhaps Kristian could open up the shop on a Saturday for us.

Terry Montgomery
209-833-1879

Gaijin wrote:
>     'Ello,
> 
>     I am looking for the most compatible SB audio card (PCI bus) for 
> Debian Sarge.  I've been trying to find the HCL to figure it out, but 
> it's near impossible with the screen reader demo I'm using.  I am blind 
> and have to tab through each and every link on the web pages, wait for 
> them to be read to me, and go to the next link.  Only problem is the 
> screen reader demo craps out in 30 minutes, and I have to reboot and try 
> to continue from where I left off.  It's not going well, especially when 
> I usually have to log into the web sites just to read anything. 
> <laughs>  I've been trying to write a shell script that'll copy the 
> files I will prepare from a CD, execute the commands needed to copy over 
> the module config file, run update-modules, and apt-get install the 
> necessary audio services to get the espeak screen reader up and 
> running.  (All in under 30 minutes...just kidding)  Currently, I'm stuck 
> in Delhi's boonies section without transpo, so I can't get over to one 
> of your install-fest sessions I've heard about from the Fire2Wire radio 
> program.  Hopefully, espeak is good enough to tell me what Linux is 
> doing, at least in text mode.  Can't use a mouse, so X is pretty much on 
> the back burner for the moment.  Reminds me to ask if lynx can handle 
> secure web page communications?  I've been building my own systems from 
> scratch since '89, and have my system set up with removable hard drive 
> trays so I can keep Microsoft off my Linux drive.  I don't trust them 
> not to wreck it somehow. <laughs>  They've screwed everything else up, 
> so why not a competing OS on another drive?  That, and the whole virus 
> question of crossing drives.  Better just to keep each OS entirely 
> separate from each other.  Yeah, I'm paranoid.  Microsofft still hasn't 
> plugged the email virus hole yet, and that started way back in '94.  I'm 
> seeing things only getting worse as time progresses.
>     Anyway, if anyone can recommend a super-easy to configure Sound 
> Blaster card that's near-100% compatible with Linux, I'd be very 
> grateful.  If there's a better, more informative/useful screen reader 
> than espeak and you know of it, that would greatly help, too.  So far, 
> I've been unable to find a screen reader for Windows that doesn't cost 
> under $950, or is understandable to any degree.  I've heard good things 
> about espeak, but if it's anything like Windows' Narrator... <sighs>  
> May have to break down and try to support a speech synthesizer, but the 
> Linux software for that is still in betaa...majorly.  I'm just hoping to 
> create a Linux box that I can use for more than 30 minutes.  Even the 
> cheesy speech synthesizer on my old Commodore-64 sounded better than 
> Narrator's "Microsoft Sam." <laughs>  I've also been considering 
> offering a $100 reward to someone who'll come down and get my system 
> working.  Hopefully, I'll be able to install the audio card myself and 
> get Windows to use it, though it worries me.  I may also need someone to 
> read a man page for me if it takes keystrokes to get espeak to say 
> something.  I dunno.  This is uncharted territory for me.  Any and all 
> info on this topic will help and will be *greatly* appreciated.  The 
> more I know about what to expect, the easier it will be to avoid the 
> pitfalls of trying this blind.
> 
>     Mu Cho's grassy ^$$,
>        Michael
> 
> 
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