On Saturday 02 February 2002 22:00, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Ainsi parlait Leon Brooks : > > On Friday 01 February 2002 23:55, daniel beck wrote: > > > I downloaded the new mandrake 8.2 bea, and everything > > > work fine for me, without my ensonique 97 card.
> > The ES1371 sucks anyway, I replaced mine with a Yamaha-based (YMF744B) > > card (AOpen AW744) and never looked back. It uses much less CPU than the > > Ensonique, never locks up, produces cleaner sound, and has an extra 2 > > channels if I ever want them. > I'm sorry to have missed beginning of the thread, It's in the archives; if searching is too clumsy, fix the archives. (-: > i didn't caught the > soundcard name, as i'm much used to the chipset one :-) > Everything is OK here with alsa and ens1371... ES1371 works more or less OK on a K6-II-300+192MB+IDE system but chewed a lot of CPU when working (KDE startup sound was horribly mangled by CPU competition from KDE itself and starting applets) and went on occasional holidays. Worse on OSS than ALSA. The Yamaha-based cards have been nothing but wonderful. Cheers; Leon
