So I have myself this awesome little laptop, which kicks severe ass ... except that Compaq (being the assholes that they are) have decided their new laptops will only be compatible with Vista and not provide accurate drivers for XP, or any other operating system for that matter.
For this reason, I can't use headphones because the shithouse audio driver that is available for XP doesn't mute the onboard speaker sound when the headphones are put in ... so using them is about as useful as using your whispering voice into a loud speaker.
Additionally, the kickass onboard mic that comes with my machine doesn't work at all. Period. And because of the same shithouse audio drivers that fuck up everything else about my audio, no other mic I ever try to attach to this thing will ever work either. Yeehaw right?
So $600 later I have a partially useful laptop that may never reach its full potential.
Fun stuff, and oh happy day.
*Sigh*
For this reason, I can't use headphones because the shithouse audio driver that is available for XP doesn't mute the onboard speaker sound when the headphones are put in ... so using them is about as useful as using your whispering voice into a loud speaker.
Additionally, the kickass onboard mic that comes with my machine doesn't work at all. Period. And because of the same shithouse audio drivers that fuck up everything else about my audio, no other mic I ever try to attach to this thing will ever work either. Yeehaw right?
So $600 later I have a partially useful laptop that may never reach its full potential.
Fun stuff, and oh happy day.
*Sigh*
*Note to self: Don't whisper into a loud speaker*