On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 05:44:17PM +0200, Danilo Godec waxed eloquent:
> What exactly is this card?
>
> I mean, can it do all the things my AWE32 can (digital audio, MIDI,
> SoundFont banks, synth, effects, etc...)? Can it do more?
> And most important, can it do it in Linux, using the tools we know
> (awesfx, awemidi, ...)?
>
> I'm asking this because the SB64 PCI is really cheap and was rated quite
> well in a sound-card comparison chart (http://www.pcavtech.com/).
>
> Another reason is that ISA slots are not that popular on new motherboards.
> But playing with AWE's synth is so much fun. I'd like to be able to do
> that with the new computer too.
If you are talking about the SB PCI128, it's a mixed bag. The chipset
is actually made by Ensoniq -- recently bought out by Creative Labs.
I've bought probably 4 or 5 of these things to use in building new
(Windoze) machines and had pretty good luck with them there.
I also tried to put one in my daughter's 486/120 PCI box and could not
get it to work right -- loud static in all D>A output. Tried everything,
switching slots, new drivers, changing interrupts for everything else
in the box, even tried downgrading from Win98 to Win95. Finally called
CL tech support. After waiting on hold for 30 minutes and getting
disconnected once, their helpful answer was to buy a "Live!" card.
That kinda pissed me off. I put her old ALS100 card back in...
Anyway, it's a cheap card that seems to work well in new boxes (Celerons
in ABit or Gigabyte motherboards). I'd avoid putting it in anything
halfway old or exotic.
I've never tried to get the card working under Linux. Don't know if
it's supported or not. Have you checked /usr/src/linux/Documentation/?
HTH, at least a little...
-cw-
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