Re: tlug: Be Careful #2

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Matt Gushee wrote:

> 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.

hm, this one didn't seem to.  I got all the plug and play stuff set up,
but when I tried to load the sb.o module, I get 'dsp reset failed'.

Pop in the Creative Labs card (or even the el-cheapo SB clones that we've
got here), re-run turbopnp and turbosoundcfg, bingo, it works.. so I just
got rid of the audiodrive.  Esp since it has no 16-bit DMA anyway, which
kind of means that it's not as good as an SB16.

> 
> Matt Gushee
> Oshamanbe, Hokkaido
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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