From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zack Smith Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 04:23:22 +0000 Subject: sound cards for linux Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Hi, I recently had an aweful experience trying to get an AWE-64 card to work on my system. This was a PnP ISA card, and the isapnptools could only recognize the SB16 registers and not the wave table, joystick etc. And SB16 performance was plagued by distortion. I have been trying to find a sound card for my system which is not plug and play, but I have had no luck. Every vendor I go to says they no longer sell sound cards which are not PnP. Can you perhaps tell me if being plug and play is really the kiss of death as far as Linux goes? It certainly was in the case of my AWE64. Mind you I prefer to boot up as Linux with LILO, so I am not intersted in booting under DOS to get the sound function to work. Another question: Would a PCI card work alright despite being PnP? Also, I would like to have access to an FM synthesizer and a MIDI emulator chip for playing MIDI files. Is there a good card for that as well which will definitely work with Linux? One last question: I once read in a newsgroup that there was interest in creating a generic interface for sound software which would look the same regardless of the card. Has this been accomplished yet? Thanks for any info. Zack Smith