On 4/4/06, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote:
> So far, every distro I have installed will not find my Dell Optiplex,
> integrated sound card. I need to do a dozen workstation installs of the
> same box. I see that some people are using Soundblaster Live cards. Will
> this card work for most Linux distros?
>

What soundcare does your optiplex have?

Yes, the SB Live! should work, though if it's a SB Live! provided by
Dell you may have problems.  From what I can remember, they use a
slightly different chipset that can make it incompatible with the
default SB Live! driver.

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
^^^ this may be of help to you.