sb16 woes

sb16 woes

[Brian Craft]

Hey -- I just picked up a isa pnp card that was sold  as a sb16. It
reports itself as a vibra 16.

It also reports that it has 2 8 bit DMA, instead of one 8 and one 16.

The sb module will load, but it always reports a IRQ/DRQ problem during
playback.


What's up with these boards? Do they do 16 bit audio? Do they work
on linux?

I'm using rh5.2.

b.c.

Re: sb16 woes

[Tony Nugent]

On Wed Jan 27 1999 at 02:07, Brian Craft wrote:

> Hey -- I just picked up a isa pnp card that was sold  as a sb16. It
> reports itself as a vibra 16.
> 
> It also reports that it has 2 8 bit DMA, instead of one 8 and one 16.
> 
> The sb module will load, but it always reports a IRQ/DRQ problem during
> playback.
> 
> 
> What's up with these boards? Do they do 16 bit audio? Do they work
> on linux?

They work just great.

> I'm using rh5.2.

Run the "sndconf" utitity as root... the configuration process is
almost automatic from there.

Cheers
Tony

Re: sb16 woes

[Tony Nugent]

On Thu Jan 28 1999 at 15:04, Tony Nugent wrote:

[ oops, gotta make a correction to my original reply ]

> > What's up with these boards? Do they do 16 bit audio? Do they work
> > on linux?
> 
> They work just great.

(As "great" as a sb vibra 16 can be, anyway :)

> > I'm using rh5.2.
> 
> Run the "sndconf" utitity as root... the configuration process is
> almost automatic from there.

It's actually called "sndconfig", a redhat utility, and I believe it
will only work for a kernel that has modular sound driver modules (ie,
a default redhat kernel, and the 2.[12].x kernels).

Cheers
Tony