From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Apr 13 17: 0:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from pan.ch.intel.com (pan.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD6214F7F for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:59:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by pan.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.6 1998/11/24 22:10:56 iwep Exp iwep $) with ESMTP id QAA10519 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:57:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.7 1999/02/08 16:00:31 steved Exp steved $) with ESMTP id QAA23744 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:57:37 -0700 (MST) Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id TAA05909; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 19:57:36 -0400 (EDT) From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14099.55791.10324.165430@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:57:35 -0700 (MST) To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: pro's & con's of ISA sound vs. PCI sound X-Mailer: VM 6.70 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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