"Sibayan Das." wrote: > Well on the box (Sound Card) it written Xwave-192. The board manufacturer can call his product anything he wants! U should always refer to the chipset version/revision whenever u make a hardware query especially on sound and VGA > Inside"Specifications", written Chipset : > YAMAHA 724 IMHO, it should be referred to as "Yamaha XG series" based on "YMF724x-y" chipsets > and AC97 Codec CODEC - COdeer/DECoder. I don't know what this compression scheme is used for but most of the new chipsets support it. >(SNR over 85dB).> So what does it mean? SNR - Signal to Noise Ratio - the higher the better, Metal tapes with Dolby S noise reduction have a SNR of <90 dB. Any run of the mill CD player has a SNR >90 dB and my home player is rated at 101 dB :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > "You can try the commercial OSS drivers available at www.opensound.com" > What'll I do? Shall I change my Sound Card? Well... It's ur choice - 1) Use the shareware drivers for 10-15 minutes every day. 2) Pay 10$(?) and register the drivers for unlimited playback. 3) Wait for the OSS drivers to arrive which AFAIK, will not happen till Yamaha decided to soften it's stand. or 4) Change to a supported card. -- Shanu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - = = (SHANU) = = - - St. Albert's College Debian GNU/Linux Cochin India Woody Powered ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on the LIH mailing list see: http://lists.linux-india.org/lists/LIH
