Re: [9fans] Sound cards in use

[Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>]

In article <11191964360.20010426173225@proweb.co.uk> you write:
>I know it says SoundBlaster 16 and above in the supported hardware
>list but could people tell me which actual cards they have found sucessful.
>I tried a SoundBlaster 16 PCI and it didn't work (although I didn't try too
>hard).

This is a recuring them, somewhat unfortunately.  The sound chip on
the bitsy works, but I don't think that's quite what you're looking
for.  :-)

I've had luck with an ISA bus SoundsBlaster 16 that I saw at J&R
computer world the other day (same day I bought my bitsy).  A friend
of mine in Brooklyn has had luck with a SoundsBlaster AWE 32,
probably also ISA.

Richard Miller has code for making a SoundBlaster Pro work, and I
believe he has used it to get various sound chips that were SBPro
compatible to work.  Unfortunately, neither of us had any luck with
it on the IBM Thinkpad T21, which uses a Cirrus Logic chip.  Maybe
Richard has had better luck recently.

To my knowledge, most PCI cards don't work, due to differences in
the way ISA and PCI DMA works, and lack of support for setting up
``legacy'' ISA modes.  There might be a way around that, but I'm
not sure.

I too any interested in hearing what other folks are doing for audio;
this seems to be a weak spot at the moment, and it's not clear that
it'd be easy to integrate new cards into the current driver framework
(which seems rather SB specific).

One yearns for a PCM based sound framework....  ;-)

	- Dan C.