Re: SoundBlaster AWE 64 and 486DX33?
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 12:05:10AM +0100, John Gay wrote:
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> I recently came across a deal on a SoundBlaster AWE 64 ISA card and was
> wondering what the chances were I could get it to work in a 486DX33 I have set
> up as an X-Terminal to a PII 350? The 486 only has ISA slots, so I'm limited to
> ISA cards, but the DOC's for the sound card says it needs at least a Pentium.
I've used it on a 486 without any trouble. The card needs a pentium processor
because some of the provided (windows) software uses some pentium specific code.
On Windows, if you skip the installation of this software, it's working nicely.
On Linux, you should have no problem.
> Would this card work, or will I be better off just getting a cheap 16bit sound
> card?
The card will work. Provided you compile the necessary modules into the kernel.
(The installation procedure is detailed in "INSTALL.awe" and "AWE32" in the
sound folder of the kernel Documentation)
> Will I be able to get sound on my X-Terminal over the network connection?
Maybe you should look at NAS or rplayd ?
Hope it helps.
Jean-Philippe
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