From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Jan 25 09:40:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26378 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 09:40:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wireless.4d.net (wireless.4d.net [207.137.156.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26373 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 09:40:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bad@uhf.wireless.net) Received: from uhf.wireless.net (uhf.wireless.net [207.137.157.140]) by wireless.4d.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA16078 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 09:41:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bad@localhost) by uhf.wireless.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA01622 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 11:40:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 11:40:53 -0600 (CST) From: Bernie Doehner To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PCW full duplex sound blaster - any idea? In-Reply-To: <199801230738.IAA01994@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Gang: Has anyone ever heard of or used the PCW motherboards with on board sound blaster? (This pertains to a previous question on full-duplex SB-16 clones). Bare with me, my prose (below) is related to my finding an inexpensive full-duplex soundcard solution FOR FREEBSD and making the jump to something better than my 486 (so that I don't keep complaining about my Haupauge card and IDE controller contending and crashing the system). (Yes, I am still working on mozart/mad16 driver, but I need/want this NOW and that work is not going so well since I am moving AGAIN). Idealy my plan was to upgrade from my measily 486 to a dual PPro, but I had to delay because of recurring money problems. And now, unless Steve Passe resends me that pointer to those "inexpensive" P166/512k he used/mentioned :) , PPro's are still two expensive and P-II's in their current incantation are junk. So the only sensible alternative seems to be a decent K6/233 and new motherboard. I stumbled across an interesting TXPRO-II BGA chipset board at: http://www.microx-press.com/data/pcwtxpro2.htm Has ANYONE used this board with the 3.0-current sound drivers successfuly and IN FULL DUPLEX MODE? (and yes, I will call the dealer up tommorrow and get the part numbers, but I doubt we'll recognize it). It claims to be 16 bit full duplex! Related question: The TXPRO-II boards say they come with a 66 MHz. AGP port. I assume the on board VGA chip uses the AGP port???? I have noticed other boards that use these "on board VGA chips" which remap 4 MB's of system RAM for video purposes.. I know it's been said AGP won't be fully supported under FreeBSD for quite some time, but what about these on board VGA chips? (again, I don't have a part number, I'll ask, but probably it's something we've never seen). Thanks for your help/patience. Bernie