Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:01:20 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew <digital@www2.shoppersnet.com> To: Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCW full duplex sound blaster - any idea? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980125200054.2817B-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980125111030.1597E-100000@uhf.wireless.net>
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On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Bernie Doehner wrote: > 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! > I think these are the CME audio chipset. I know that sound cards based on that chip work fine in WSS mode using Luigi's driver. So I guess it does do 16 bit that way, but I never really tested the chipset in SB16 mode. I still prefer sound and video off the motherboard.
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