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voidmain:
Do you have the Turtle Beach Montego Bay or the Montego Bay II? From everything I've read, this is a bastard card and Aureal is the company that made the chipset (Aureal AU8820 or AU8830 chipset depending on if you have Montego I or II). They are no longer in business. Creative picked up the company/technology and they aren't releasing any information about the cards/chips. More info on the *old* Linux drivers from Aureal: http://aureal.sourceforge.net/

Having said that, I believe what Lycoris uses for sound drivers are "OSS" drivers that can be found here: http://www.opensound.com/. I did see a note on the Montego card. You can download a trial but I believe this driver is not open source and it is not free. You can download trial that will time out after a while. I downloaded the driver and there is a little program to run to install it.

If it were my machine I would get a cheap sound card that I know is compatible with both Windows and Linux natively.

"alsa" is another sound driver system that is not used by RedHat 8.0 but I don't believe there is support for the Montego in that either.The alsa web site does have it on their list but it shows it's status as unknown.

Also, the first thing I would do if I were you is to download this RPM (apt) from http://www.freshrpms.net/ and install it, then install the graphical software tool called "synaptic". It is possible to install the alsa kernel and software with this software installation package, but even if you don't install alsa it is good for installing some of the other multimedia apps such as "MPlayer" and "Xine" (and to keep your system updated). After you install the "apt" rpm you can install the "synaptic" graphical tool by opening a shell window and typing:

$ su -
Enter root's password
# apt-get install synaptic
# synaptic

Summary: Again I would suggest that you do not get hung up on this unsupported and closed sound card from a company that is no longer in business. I would strongly suggest thinking about getting a new card (doen't have to be an expensive one). If you have a card in mind, post it here and we can help you look over compatibility and support for the card before you purchase it.

[ November 03, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

slave:
Thanks void main, I installed apt and synaptic is great!  It solves all of those RPM dependency problems.  Now, why doesn't Red Hat Linux come with something like this by default???

voidmain:
Because then it wouldn't be so much fun.  

spinningheel4242:
Ya, thanks for the replys.  I have a turtle beach montego II which works great for windoze but not for Redhat 8.  I haven't tried your suggestions yet but I think I might look for a old soundcard to throw in there.  

Good news on the conversion front.  I got my wife using Mozilla to seach the web when using windoze...she still won't stand for Redhat....too different for her.  But at least that is a start.

One question, are there any wonderful email apps to replace Outlook Express while my wife is still using windoze?  The one reason she likes it is because Outlook can check hotmail as will as Pop mail....

Anyways, thanks

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