At the risk of falling foul of BLOGMA 2001, an update on the new computer saga. I bought a new (cheap commodity) sound card today, this time an AudioExcel card based on something called the CM8738, which is known to have some support under Linux. I installed it and compiled the driver (a weird, standalone one). It worked well enough when playing MP3s and such, but VMWare didn't like it. I tried the alternative ALSA driver suite, and it worked a lot better.

One curiosity: I noticed that the CD that came with the sound card had drivers not only for various Microsoft-spawn but also for "Linux". On closer inspection, the Linux driver turned out to be a copy of the experimental driver sources bundled with the 2.2.13 kernel (the one which didn't work with VMWare).

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