Re: Soundblaster 64 PCI with Linux

[Daniel Elenius <daniel@i203.ryd.student.liu.se>]

Kurt Garloff writes:
>On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 01:12:54PM -0500, Brendan Bye-Bye Coleridge Cully wrote:
>> Does anyone know anything about the PCI128? I can get
>> sound out of this board with modprobe 1370 (not 1371?
>> is the 128 inferior to the 64?), but the drivers
>> that come with the kernel seem to get a lot of DMA
>> timeouts, and programs often seem to hang trying to
>> open /dev/dsp (don't receive TERM, either, only KILL),
>> after which nothing can use sound... so I guess the
>> chip isn't identical.

I use a SB PCI128 with 2.1.129, and it works fine. The PCI128 is, in
fact a ES1370, so use that driver. Sound volume was a bit low for me
by default, but that's easily fixed with a mixer program like cat,
which you can run at boot time.