Re: Aztech 16-bit in SB mode??

[Matthew Haas <wedge@onlineimage.com>]

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, lokesh setia wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a Aztech 16-bit sound card which reports to be SB16 compatible.
> (In DOS that is, all games etc. use the SB 16  settings after the Aztech 
> sound driver is loaded.).
>

Unless this is some very new card (last few months), there exists no
SoundBlaster 16 clones.

I have an Aztech Sound Galaxy PRO 16 card, which I used before getting my
genuine SB32, and it was a good card. 

Most cards which claim 16-bit sound mode usually use something like
MSS/WSS, and have a SoundBlaster PRO mode. 

An interesting thing about some of the Aztech's (mine included) is that
they ran both 16 and 8-bit modes at once...(at least the DOS-sided driver
did, I could never get it to work this way under Linux, had to be one or
the other).

If it has an EEPROM / software jumper, set it for EEPROM and make sure the
correct values are in memory, and then you won't need to use LOADLIN, just
boot it straight to Linux.

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