Sound card not detected

[spencer]

Hello, I have an old Dell Optiplex PIII 450 Mhz 320MB ram and would like to install "Kubuntu" on it. While Running From the live CD it does not detect the sound card. So, before I install, am I able to fix this or is this computer's sound card not supported? Thanks.

-spencer

[cwaldbieser]

What kind of sound card is it?

[spencer]

Hi, Sound card is Crystal WDM Audio System. Ubuntu recognizes soundcard but not Kubuntu and I would like to install Kubuntu. Gnome desktop seems to bog down this old machine compared to KDE. Maybe with next week's release it'll work. Thanks.

-spencer

[moopere]

> Hi, Sound card is Crystal WDM Audio System

This does not tell us what the sound card is - the WDM bit means "Windows driver Model". Sounds like the description coming from Windows 2K+ in hardware manager.

Why not go to the Dell website and have a look at the specs for your machine?


>Ubuntu recognizes soundcard but not Kubuntu

Does this mean that the live CD for ubuntu recognises your audio cardbut the kubuntu live CD doesn't? Or does it mean that you've installed ubuntu + kde (kubuntu) and booting into gnome gives you sound but booting into kubuntu doesnt?

Cheers,
Craig

[spencer]

Didn't find anything on Dell site. I'll try here again. Sound card is: cs4236B:wss /SB. If this is incorrect I'll try again.

-spencer

[cwaldbieser]

I found this link on Dell's site:

http://support.dell.com/support/topi...l=en&s=gen&cs=

It applies to Red Hat (I didn't find the sndconfig program they mention on my Ubuntu system), but it may help someone else to help you out. The sound driver level of any given *NIX system is still somewhat of a mystery to me.

I checked the Cirrus Logic site, too, as it seems they are the ones who manufacture the card, but the only thing I could find were dates they discontinued production of various models of that card.