ESS 488 and 688

ESS 488 and 688

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Linux-Sound:

What are the settings in 'make menuconfig' for 
ESS Technologies 488 and 688 sound cards when
I'm configuring the kernel?  Are they SB16 clones?

Joe

Re: ESS 488 and 688

[Tony Nugent]

On Fri Oct 02 1998 00:00, root wrote:

[You shouldn't be using your root account for ordinary email!  Use an
ordinary user account for this sort of thing.]

> What are the settings in 'make menuconfig' for
> ESS Technologies 488 and 688 sound cards when
> I'm configuring the kernel?  Are they SB16 clones?

I have (in the past) used both these cards configured as SB16 clones.
(Also had /dev/sbcd working to use cdroms hanging off them).

Cheers
Tony
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Re: ESS 488 and 688

[Tony Nugent]

On Sat Oct 03 1998 00:00, Tony Nugent wrote:

> I have (in the past) used both these cards configured as SB16 clones.
> (Also had /dev/sbcd working to use cdroms hanging off them).

Oops, typo.  That should be /dev/sbpcd

Cheers
Tony

Re: ESS 488 and 688

[Christian Brandt]

Tony Nugent wrote:

> > What are the settings in 'make menuconfig' for
> > ESS Technologies 488 and 688 sound cards when
> > I'm configuring the kernel?  Are they SB16 clones?
> 
> I have (in the past) used both these cards configured as SB16 clones.
> (Also had /dev/sbcd working to use cdroms hanging off them).

 You configured them as generic SB-Clones, to be precise, as SB8pro.

 There are no SB16-compatible cards out there. None at all.

 This means, ESS-Boards tend to run only at 8Bit.

-- 
Christian Brandt

 Life is short and in most cases it ends with death - Sir Sinclair

Re: ESS 488 and 688

[Thomas Sailer]

Christian Brandt wrote:

>  You configured them as generic SB-Clones, to be precise, as SB8pro.
> 
>  There are no SB16-compatible cards out there. None at all.
> 
>  This means, ESS-Boards tend to run only at 8Bit.

Newer ESS chips like the 1688 have their own 16bit mode,
which should be supported by Linux (haven't tried for quite some
time tough).

Tom

Re: ESS 488 and 688

[Matthew Kirkwood]

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Thomas Sailer wrote:

> Newer ESS chips like the 1688 have their own 16bit mode,
> which should be supported by Linux (haven't tried for quite some
> time tough).

Out of curiousity, should an ESS1868 work?  I've never had any success,
with mine but then I didn't bother configuring it with isapnptools.

If not, how hard is it to acquire documentation for said chipset?

Matthew.

Re: ESS 488 and 688

[Bill Nottingham]

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk) said: 
> On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Thomas Sailer wrote:
> 
> > Newer ESS chips like the 1688 have their own 16bit mode,
> > which should be supported by Linux (haven't tried for quite some
> > time tough).
> 
> Out of curiousity, should an ESS1868 work?  I've never had any success,
> with mine but then I didn't bother configuring it with isapnptools.

Ah - there's your problem. Assuming you use isapnptools to
configure it to something sane, it should work pretty much
out of the box with the SB driver.

Bill