Re: Sound Blasters

Re: Sound Blasters

[llornkcor]

I use a plug-n-pray SB awe64, and it works fine. I also have a SB pci
128 that works fine, except that realplayer g2 doesnt like the pci 128 card.
dont let PNP discourage you from buying an inexpensive card. Just dont buy a
'winsound card' if there is such a thing.

On Sat, 07 Aug 1999, Scorpion wrote:
> I went down to a few computer stores to try and buy me a decent sound
> card.  I've never been able to get my soundcard to work fully with Linux,
> so I wanted to buy a new one.  One I knew would work with Linux.  I wanted
> to get a Sound Blaster 16.  They had a few cards down there, but most
> where over $100.  They had a Sound Blaster 16 pci there for $50, and I
> almost bought it.  Started to read the package, and noticed it was plug
> and play.  I put it back and left.  Would it be possible to get that thing
> to work?  If not, got any suggestions for good quality lower priced sound
> cards?  In case you need to know, I'm using the kernel 2.2.10.
> 
> Thanks.
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Re: Sound Blasters

[Bart Van Gelder]

llornkcor wrote:
> 
> I use a plug-n-pray SB awe64, and it works fine. I also have a SB pci
> 128 that works fine, except that realplayer g2 doesnt like the pci 128 card.
> dont let PNP discourage you from buying an inexpensive card. Just dont buy a
> 'winsound card' if there is such a thing.
> 
I've also a SN pci 128 and I'm using kernel 2.2.10 (Debian 2.1).  But my
sound doesn't works.  How dit you configure it ?


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Bart

Re: Sound Blasters

[llornkcor]

I bought a sound driver from OSS-
http://www.opensound.com/
:o)

On Sun, 08 Aug 1999, Bart Van Gelder wrote:
> llornkcor wrote:
> > 
> > I use a plug-n-pray SB awe64, and it works fine. I also have a SB pci
> > 128 that works fine, except that realplayer g2 doesnt like the pci 128 card.
> > dont let PNP discourage you from buying an inexpensive card. Just dont buy a
> > 'winsound card' if there is such a thing.
> > 
> I've also a SN pci 128 and I'm using kernel 2.2.10 (Debian 2.1).  But my
> sound doesn't works.  How dit you configure it ?
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Bart
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Re: Sound Blasters

[fe88]

On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, llornkcor wrote:

> I use a plug-n-pray SB awe64, and it works fine. I also have a SB pci
> 128 that works fine, except that realplayer g2 doesnt like the pci 128
> card. dont let PNP discourage you from buying an inexpensive card.
> Just dont buy a 'winsound card' if there is such a thing.

>Thanks.  I'll go ahead and get it.

If you do get the SB AWE64 my config page might help:

http://www.fe88.dial.pipex.com/awe64config.shtml

Best of luck

Regards


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ALSA 0.4.0
AlsaPlayer 0.99.21
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RE: Sound Blasters

[Nerijus]

> > If you do get the SB AWE64 my config page might help:
> > 
> > http://www.fe88.dial.pipex.com/awe64config.shtml
> 
> I just want the 16,  good enough for me.

I think you misunderstand - there is SB 16 ISA, SB 16 PCI (something
like SB 128 PCI?, you want to buy it) and SB AWE64 ISA.
You said you "wanted to get a Sound Blaster 16", so I think you
talked about ISA version, because it works very well with Linux.
Be careful with PCI... it might be difficult to setup. SB ISA cards
are out of production and you can get them very cheap.

Re: Sound Blasters

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, llornkcor wrote:

> I use a plug-n-pray SB awe64, and it works fine.

Me too.

I hate to add this except that SBawe64s are so cheap these days. I last
bought one for around $35.

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Re: Sound Blasters

[Abe Smith]

Speaking of which, where do you find them?


On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 01:26:16AM -0700, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, llornkcor wrote:
> 
> > I use a plug-n-pray SB awe64, and it works fine.
> 
> Me too.
> 
> I hate to add this except that SBawe64s are so cheap these days. I last
> bought one for around $35.
> 
> -- 
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> Indeed, when I design my killer language, the identifiers "foo" and "bar"
> will be reserved words, never used, and not even mentioned in the 
> reference manual.  Any program using one will simply dump core without 
> comment. Multitudes will rejoice. -- Tim Peters

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Re: Sound Blasters

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Abe Smith wrote:

> Speaking of which, where do you find them?

I buy them at local computer swaps. Most cities have them. Face it, you
don't need the software or the box for Linux, so OEM versions are perfect.

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Indeed, when I design my killer language, the identifiers "foo" and "bar"
will be reserved words, never used, and not even mentioned in the 
reference manual.  Any program using one will simply dump core without 
comment. Multitudes will rejoice. -- Tim Peters

RE: Sound Blasters

[Roy-Anders Larsen]

On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Scorpion wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Nerijus wrote:
> 
> > You said you "wanted to get a Sound Blaster 16", so I think you talked
> > about ISA version, because it works very well with Linux. Be careful
> > with PCI... it might be difficult to setup.
> 
> I originally wanted the ISA, but all they had down there was the PCI and
> that's what I want to know more about.  What about the wavetable one?

I would probably recommend a SB 64 ISA AWE card.  After I bought the SB 16
waveffects ISA, I found that everywhere I checked for info on how to
config it they recommended the SB 64 ISA AWE.  AFAICT, it has a wavetable
built in and you cand expand its memory.  With a slow computer like mine,
you'll soon wish that the expansion hardware (like the soundcard) is fully
capable of handling its own stuff.
I'm able to play WAV files and the lousy MIDI that's built in.  Beep,
beep..  OK, so maybe you get what you pay for... :-)
I've never tried recording with my sound card.  Any views on recording
with these card folks?

Roy


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Re: Sound Blasters

[robbie]

Hi

I would get a sb pci 64 or pci 128. I have used both and they are much
easier to setup than isa cards. Just stick it in and modprobe es1370 or
modprobe es1371. They are very good for the price.

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Rob Murray