On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:52:58PM +0100, Felix E. Klee wrote: > Bostjan Muller wrote: > > I'd really like to buy a PCMCIA sound card for my toshiba satellite 100cs > > laptop, which is running Debian GNU/Linux, but I cannot seam to find any > > companies in Slovenia, Austria, Italy or Germany which sell these cards, I am > > looking for the cheapest possible working option, and I was wondering if > > someone could please point out to me which card to buy - I don't need anything > > fancy, just an ordinary pcmcia sound card. > > Years ago, I build a sound device that can be attached to the parallel > port and produces Sound Blaster quality sound (I think its compatible to > something called COVOX Sound Module). However, I don't know whether such > a device is supported by LINUX. If you are interested and if I find it, > I can mail you the manual (it was on the disk of some shareware sound > program). Yes, yes, yes :) The modplay program (or similar) had this. The hardware.doc file is attached. (I hope I don't violate any copyright by doing so). Do you believe it ?? I still have that stuff on the DOS partition of my HDD !! andi@andi:/home/andi$ ls /dosc/musik/mp/ -l insgesamt 204 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root 80 6609 Jun 3 1992 486.cfg -r--r--r-- 1 root 80 13111 Feb 2 1992 hardware.doc -r--r--r-- 1 root 80 6609 Feb 26 1992 modplay.cfg -r--r--r-- 1 root 80 27070 Jan 29 1992 modplay.gif -rw-rw-rw- 1 root 80 75839 Mär 1 1995 mp.arj -r--r--r-- 1 root 80 26722 Feb 26 1992 mp.com -r--r--r-- 1 root 80 25457 Feb 26 1992 mp.doc -r--r--r-- 1 root 80 562 Jul 4 1992 readme.btx -r--r--r-- 1 root 80 7752 Feb 26 1992 what.new I'm pretty damn sure this must be the 3rd generation of my HDDs now :-) (the .arj is only from 95, though) It's just incredible... But OTOH I NEVER had a HDD crash so far. Except for my new 20 GB notebook HDD, that is... :-\ Andreas Mohr
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