Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 08:36:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: mystify@friley63.res.iastate.edu (Patrick Hartling) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoundBlaster PCI 64 support Message-ID: <199804130636.IAA00875@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199804130138.UAA07841@friley63.res.iastate.edu> from "Patrick Hartling" at Apr 12, 98 08:38:36 pm
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> What kind of support is available for the Creative Labs SB PCI 64? It claims > to emulate ISA SoundBlasters, so does that mean it will work with the current i may be comp;etely wrong, but i doubt a pci card can emulate an ISA device at low level -- it cannot access the ISA DMA controller, the ISA port addressing space (0..0x3ff) etc. I think the "emulation" is only at very high level, i.e. "it produces sound" and perhaps has the same high level API (DirectAudio ?). Because there are so many people buying Soundblaster cards "because they are a standard" the marketing people at Creative Labs is forced NOT to tell the truth -- the card is a completely different one from the ISA one... hopefully it is not as bad as the real one... cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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