On 11/23/20 3:41 PM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > On Monday 23 November 2020, Edward via tde-users wrote: >> On 11/23/20 11:40 AM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: >>> Ok update on the audio card question. >>> >>> Card chosen = SB Audigy RX - 100% natively supported. Please note this >>> card has an optical io port that is ON by default when first >>> installed. Turn it off to activate the 1/8 jacks. Otherwise there will >>> be no signal out or in (no audio/mic/ or linein). >>> >>> The sound quality is as good as the card it replaced which is now in >>> Gary's (brother from another mother) computer. He's having fun. Sadly, >>> the RX, doesn't have a break out box like the Platinum does, so I have >>> to make one. No biggy, 3 wires in a project box. >>> >>> According to the headaches I gave out freely at Creative Labs and a >>> variety of other source. Any emu10kx chip is native on linux and, >>> infact, has better support than mac and windows. Yeeeah for us. >>> >>> So.. solved, concluded, moving on (if anyone has any question please >>> feel free to ask). >> This is good to know. I had been looking at my Creative Sound Blaster >> Live! 5.1 (legacy PCI) sound card, which I believe has a year in the >> early 2000's shown on its printed circuit board and have been >> contemplating installing it in the other desktop, just to see if it >> still works and if the audio is better than what's provided from the >> on-board (NVIDIA). >> >> ____________________________________________________ > I have tons of those and they all work perfectly. In fact, this machine

I have not yet put the card in, but had a thought... The sound cards from that era, have a jack where an audio cable connected it to the CD/DVD drive. Where the card would override the on-board audio once installed, would that audio cable still be necessary today, or would today's motherboards know to route the audio from the CD/DVD through the motherboard, directly to the sound card? I haven't actually looked at the back of the DVD drive to see if it even has that connection on it. That system is from 2009. ____________________________________________________