Re: tlug: Be Careful #2

[Matt Gushee <matt@example.com>]

Scott Stone writes:

 > >  > ESS AudioDrive soundcards.  Not only do they not work with Linux,
 > > 
 > > What do you mean, "don't work?" Mine works fine. Well, sound quality
 > > isn't great, but I didn't pay much for it, either.
 > 
 > I mean that I could NOT get the thing to work.  At least, not with the
 > soundblaster modules.. are there AudioDrive-specific drivers for Linux?
 > If so, I either missed them when I made turbosoundcfg, or they've been
 > added since.

The ESS 688 and 1688 should work with the SoundBlaster driver. But
there's some Soundblaster capability that you're *not* supposed to
enable. I forget exactly ... and my notebook machine with the ESS 688
is not here right now. But if you're interested I can look up the
config for you.

I'm not surprised you had trouble. The kernel docs don't say much
about ESS AudioDrive, and the Soundblaster-compatibility section seems 
to imply that they won't work. But if you read *real carefully* and make 
the right guesses, they do -- at least sometimes.

Matt Gushee
Oshamanbe, Hokkaido
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