Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 11:40:53 -0600 (CST) From: Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net> To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PCW full duplex sound blaster - any idea? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980125111030.1597E-100000@uhf.wireless.net> In-Reply-To: <199801230738.IAA01994@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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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! Related question: The TXPRO-II boards say they come with a 66 MHz. AGP port. I assume the on board VGA chip uses the AGP port???? I have noticed other boards that use these "on board VGA chips" which remap 4 MB's of system RAM for video purposes.. I know it's been said AGP won't be fully supported under FreeBSD for quite some time, but what about these on board VGA chips? (again, I don't have a part number, I'll ask, but probably it's something we've never seen). Thanks for your help/patience. Bernie
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