Next stage in the hardware saga

[drwex]

Thanks to an assist from caulay I got the card (ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP 512MB) plugged in and running. And my sound went away.

Why, you are asking yourself, is a video card taking over my sound? Well apparently the card has some kind of audio output. When I open up the Windows audio panel, it claims to be using "ATI Audio Rear output".

The System Information control panel Components: Sound Device sees two sound devices installed. I just can't figure out how to tell it to use the SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio that it was using before, even though the system knows it's still there.

More frustrating, nothing in the various bits of ATI software seems to give me any control over sound. It's got multiple desktops and other nice visual things, but zilch for sound control.

Funnier and funnier, I tell ya.