I am lost and have no idea as what to do! A year or so ago I attempted
to install Debian Linux because I was bored of Windows 98. The
installation failed about a third of the way through and I was left
with a partioned hard drive and nothing else. I am running a Compaq
Presario 5700T, which included a Full Restore disk. I soon found out
that some data that the Full Restore disc relied upon was secretly
stored on my hard drive, thus the restore was very unstable and
incomplete. I then moved on to Fedora Core 4, that is the highest
version of Fedora that my computer can handle, and everything worked
perfectly, even sound! I eventually got bored, I am taking a
programming class right now where Windows PCs are used, so I needed to
translate from Linux back to Windows. Last night I installed Windows XP
Professional and everything works fine, expect there is no sound! I
popped open the case of my machine and discovered that my sound card is
manufactured by Diamond Multimedia. I had never heard of them
previously, yet there site exists and seems updated so they still must
have a presence. (This computer was purchased back in 1998 when I was
only eight years old so I had no idea what cards were in there until
today.)The model is Monster Sound MX300. I serached the Internet for
the appropriate drivers and discovered this: The drivers for the MX300
model were only made for Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows NT, I have
Windows XP! When I was running Fedora Core 4, the sound worked
perfectly, so I am assuming that there has to be a way that I can get
sound without updating my sound card or converting back to Linux. If
you have any ideas they would be much appreciated. P.S. I think Linux
or at least Fedora used something called Alsa. Thanks!




--
Brock Jones

Since Diamond are responsible for writing the drivers for their own
hardware, I suggest you contact them.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"Brock Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> I am lost and have no idea as what to do! A year or so ago I attempted
> to install Debian Linux because I was bored of Windows 98. The
> installation failed about a third of the way through and I was left
> with a partioned hard drive and nothing else. I am running a Compaq
> Presario 5700T, which included a Full Restore disk. I soon found out
> that some data that the Full Restore disc relied upon was secretly
> stored on my hard drive, thus the restore was very unstable and
> incomplete. I then moved on to Fedora Core 4, that is the highest
> version of Fedora that my computer can handle, and everything worked
> perfectly, even sound! I eventually got bored, I am taking a
> programming class right now where Windows PCs are used, so I needed to
> translate from Linux back to Windows. Last night I installed Windows XP
> Professional and everything works fine, expect there is no sound! I
> popped open the case of my machine and discovered that my sound card is
> manufactured by Diamond Multimedia. I had never heard of them
> previously, yet there site exists and seems updated so they still must
> have a presence. (This computer was purchased back in 1998 when I was
> only eight years old so I had no idea what cards were in there until
> today.)The model is Monster Sound MX300. I serached the Internet for
> the appropriate drivers and discovered this: The drivers for the MX300
> model were only made for Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows NT, I have
> Windows XP! When I was running Fedora Core 4, the sound worked
> perfectly, so I am assuming that there has to be a way that I can get
> sound without updating my sound card or converting back to Linux. If
> you have any ideas they would be much appreciated. P.S. I think Linux
> or at least Fedora used something called Alsa. Thanks!
>
>
>
>
> --
> Brock Jones