Neomagic MagicMedia sound card

Neomagic MagicMedia sound card

[Alexis DOMJAN]

Hello,

A friend of mine got an Acer Travelmate 720TX laptop, and we installed Linux successfully.

Anyway we've a problem with the sound card. It's described as a Sound Blaster Compatible
sound card. And it is... but it's only compatible as a Sound Blaster Pro 8 bit sound card.

When loading sb module we get the following text in the logs:

SB 3.01 Detected OK (220)
SB DSP version is just 3.01 which means that your card is
several years old (8 bit only device) or alternatively the sound
driver is incorrectly configured.

The sound card is named as MagicMedia 256AV, from NeoMagic. Do you 
know if it's possible to use 16 bits with this sound card ?

Thanks in advance for your help
-- 
Alexis Domjan <adomjan@horus.ch>

Re: Neomagic MagicMedia sound card

[Bill Nottingham]

Alexis DOMJAN (disco@igaia.ch) said: 
> A friend of mine got an Acer Travelmate 720TX laptop, and we installed Linux successfully.
> 
> Anyway we've a problem with the sound card. It's described as a Sound Blaster Compatible
> sound card. And it is... but it's only compatible as a Sound Blaster Pro 8 bit sound card.
> 
> When loading sb module we get the following text in the logs:
> 
> SB 3.01 Detected OK (220)
> SB DSP version is just 3.01 which means that your card is
> several years old (8 bit only device) or alternatively the sound
> driver is incorrectly configured.
> 
> The sound card is named as MagicMedia 256AV, from NeoMagic. Do you 
> know if it's possible to use 16 bits with this sound card ?

You should be able to use the ad1848 (aka Windows Sound System) driver
to get 16bit sound out of it.

Bill