On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:27:33PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > At the moment I am using a Sound Blaster vibra16x pnp card, > this card is not really supported by OSSFree (kernel) > or ALSA. Although the card produces sound, it gives dma > errors when using the second dma channel and it is > unable to work in full duplex. I am getting fed up with > this card.... I used to have a Vibra16C, which worked fine. I haven't had any experience with the 16X, but I believe they aren't well supported, and have a problem with respect to not having a 16bit DMA channel. > I am thinking about a new one. The PCI64 by Sound Blaster > seems a good candidate. Does anyone have experience using this > card? Some Questions: > > - Can I configure it with ISAPNP? If not, how do I do it? > - Does it work full duplex? I just put one of these in my machine - it's using the ens1370 chipset (some of them use the ens1371 or ens1373). I'm actually using it with the ALSA drivers, and it works fine (provided I keep the volume levels on the mixer below 90% for both the Master and PCM outputs, otherwise I get nasty clipping on the sound). You don't need to configure it with ISAPNP, because it's a PCI card, both the ALSA drivers and the kernel drivers find the card by themselves. I'm not sure about full-duplex mode, since I never use it. I'm pretty sure it works full-duplex under ALSA, but I have absolutely no idea about the kernel drivers. Hope that helps a little. -- [ Matthew Gregan ] [ GPG ID: B63A1E95 ] [ kinetik@ihug.co.nz ] [ GPG fingerprint: FB83 2911 F170 B31C 9E4A E382 CA8A A2F6 B63A 1E95 ]
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