And this is precisely why I have a whole box of SoundBlaster PCI128 soundcards pulled from older Dell Optiplex workstations. This card has always worked perfectly in all of our AG nodes.
On 4/11/07, Joseph Stone <stone...@umn.edu> wrote: > In what appears to be a clever marketing trick, system and soundcard > manufacturers have used the moniker "HD" and attached the words High > Definition to the letters. > > It really stands for Half Duplex. Since rat expects a chip set that can > simultaneously send out signals while receiving them, these new devices do > not get recognized. The HD devices appear to do some sort of fast switching > so that the user hears and speaks apparently at the same time. > > I'll leave it to UCL folks to correct/add to what I've just said. > > Joe > > > Joseph Stone > Senior Informatics Manager > Family Medicine Community Health, Medical School, Univ. of Minnesota > Suite 220 Dinnaken > 925 Delaware St. SE > Minneapolis, MN 55414 > > (612) 624-3192 > stone...@umn.edu > >