From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Jan 25 20:02:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA29072 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:02:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www2.shoppersnet.com (shoppersnet.com [204.156.152.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29057 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:02:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from digital@www2.shoppersnet.com) Received: from localhost (digital@localhost) by www2.shoppersnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA03039; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:01:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from digital@www2.shoppersnet.com) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:01:20 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew To: Bernie Doehner cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCW full duplex sound blaster - any idea? In-Reply-To: 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 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.