Joop Stakenborg (aba@casema.net) wrote: > > Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 > > SB 4.16 detected OK (220) > > SB16: Bad or missing 16 bit DMA channel > > Here is what bothers me. The card seems to use 2 DMA channels, > but one is always working bad (the 16 bit DMA channel). The ViBRA16X does not have a 16-bit DMA channel. It has two 8-bit DMA channels instead. (As far as I can tell.) > That's right. I have sound too. Under enlightenment, the default > window manager for gnome, which uses a sound daemon calles esd, > the card produces no sound at all. Huh. Weird. I get sound from Civilization: Call to Power (Linux version 1.1) while esd is running, and I'm fairly sure that CTP1.1 uses esd. > I get warnings in the syslog all the time. You might want to post them. Even though I probably can't interpret them very well, someone else might be able to. > I want to use this card with speak-freely, but it refuses to work > in full duplex mode, because of the faulty DMA channel. > Full duplex is needed to speak and listen at the same time with > speak-freely. Unfortunately, I have no insight into this issue. I've never attempted to use speak-freely. -- Greg Wooledge | Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ wooledge@kellnet.com | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |
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