24 Nov
2020
24 Nov
'20
11:22 p.m.
On 11/24/20 5:56 PM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
>
>>> Ok word of warning.
>>>
>>> If you suddenly lose a sata port, move the card.
>>> It's ok to put a x1 into a x4, 8 and 16 slot.
>>> Also, if you don't get any sound out of it, but it's completely
detected,
>>> make sure the optical port option is OFF.
You'll find that in the
>>> switches section of kmix.
>>>
>>> let us know how it goes,
>>>
>>> Kate
>> Thanks for this info. The PC (strangely) only came with two PCI-E x1
>> (non-open-ended) slots, despite that system being two years *newer* than
>> this one (which has two PCI-E x1, one x16 and one legacy PCI).
>>
>> One of the x1 slots in the other PC is being used by the network card.
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> Wait you don't have any x16 slots?
>
> As for kscd, I needed to delete the old configs and reinstall the
associated
packages and
now I can play an audio cd. Thank you Slavek.
Kate
Two x1 slots:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03054469
FWIW, when I inquired on the local Linux group's listserv about a
Radeon-based video card for an x1 slot, one of the respondents said it
was the first time he had heard of a PC shipping with *only* x1 slots.
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