Re: [linux-audio-user] audiophile 2496 - spdif in

Strangely enough... so's your sound card. We'll assume that also means that you don't need the ide on 15. If you shut off ide1, the serial and parallel ports {Soundblaster and PAS always use 5 {or 7} and you can push {reserve} other {isa, unplug and play, etc...} stuff up to the higher IRQs you may be able to clear up enough space for the Maudio card. {and your hd} If there are other peripherals that aren't showing up and you don't need them... turn them off. {You don't really need a floppy if that's what the ide thing {I doubt it} is... I've set up many systems using a cd to boot/rescue with. It's not ever been any real problem.} If your bios really doesn't offer you the option to switch things around you can always do it in software. I've not run Slackware for 7-8 years... frankly I've forgotten how. None of the Systems {Suse, Redhat, Mandrake, Debian and lots of variants and versions {currently, I'm banging my head against the wall with HURD {it's actually fairly simple... I've just not had the time to read all of the set up stuff.}} I've run in the past 5 or so years has "given me the option". Slackware's really tough and it's not going to get a lot easier. It's made for folk that *really* know linux/unix, etc... {and masochists}. My suggestion would be to either buy or download Redhat, set it up and save the configs for the rest of the time you own the board. Alternately, {and probably better} there's a very small Debian distribution that's really easy and pretty sure fire. {Somewhere at http://www.debian.org } It's ~15o megs and gives you an entire system. Everything else you can set up over the 'net with dselect or apt-get. {Stick to stable for a couple months}