Re: Soundblaster 64 PCI with Linux

Kurt Garloff (garloff@kg1.ping.de)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:21:01 +0100


On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 01:12:54PM -0500, Brendan Bye-Bye Coleridge Cully wrote:
> Does anyone know anything about the PCI128? I can get
> sound out of this board with modprobe 1370 (not 1371?
> is the 128 inferior to the 64?), but the drivers
> that come with the kernel seem to get a lot of DMA
> timeouts, and programs often seem to hang trying to
> open /dev/dsp (don't receive TERM, either, only KILL),
> after which nothing can use sound... so I guess the
> chip isn't identical.

Why do you expect es1371 to be superior to es1370?
AFAIK, es1370 has one channel more than es1371. Maybe there are other
differences, too. See linux/Documentation/sound/ ...

Too bad, I know nothing about PCI128 ...

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