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From: Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 11:25:12 +0000
Subject: Re: ESS 488 and 688
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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