Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:57:35 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: pro's & con's of ISA sound vs. PCI sound Message-ID: <14099.55791.10324.165430@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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Hello, I don't want to start any sort of holy war here, but am in the market for a "good" sound card for my new machine (dual boot with NT and Fbsd 3.1). I would like 4-speaker support and all the "nifty" features that I can get. The question I have is what are the real tradeoffs that one pays by going the ISA route vs. the PCI route (besides the obvious loss of a PCI slot if those are precious to you)? I am assuming that since not an incredible amount of data gets transfered to/from the card that there isn't a signifcant speed/bandwidth issue when using an ISA card vs. PCI. True? Untrue? Would ISA sound be more of a pain in the butt to set up (because of legacy ISA stuff like i/o ports, dma's, etc.) than PCI sound? What recommendations do folks out there have for sound cards? Can somebody attest to the quality of the OSS drivers from 4-front? Are they worth getting? We need to get some sort of "hardware testimonial database" that can be searched ... :) Thanks, -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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