From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 03:57:46 +0000 Subject: Re: Neomagic MagicMedia sound card Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org 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