On 4/4/06, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > So far, every distro I have installed will not find my Dell Optiplex, > integrated sound card. I need to do a dozen workstation installs of the > same box. I see that some people are using Soundblaster Live cards. Will > this card work for most Linux distros? > What soundcare does your optiplex have? Yes, the SB Live! should work, though if it's a SB Live! provided by Dell you may have problems. From what I can remember, they use a slightly different chipset that can make it incompatible with the default SB Live! driver. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ ^^^ this may be of help to you.