[Sound card]

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

I second this...I have the Gateway OEM version of this card here at work and at home and they both work great



Matt Graham extolled:
> Mark Szidik <szidikm@mlc.lib.mi.us> wrote:
> > 
> > I want to retire my ancient SoundMan 16 ISA sound card with a cheap
> > (like $25 or less) PCI card that is supported in Linux.  Any
> > recommendtaions?
> 
> The card I've been recommending for this sort of thing is the Ensoniq
> AudioPCI, otherwise known as the Soundblaster-128 PCI.  I paid $30 for one of
> these in January 2000, so you can probably find one for $25 now!  This card
> should use the es1371 module (included with every distro, trivial to compile
> if you build your own kernel.)
> 
> The only problem with this is that the newest cards have slightly different
> firmware than the older models, so if you buy one of these off the shelf, you
> might need a 2.2.18 kernel for sound to work.  Also, there is no hardware MIDI
> for this card--get "timidity" and you'll be OK wrt MIDI.
> 
> -- 
> Matt G / Dances With Crows
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> But only Light too dim for us to see
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Daniel R. Kilbourne
daniel.kilbourne@voyager.net
Network Engineering
CoreComm - Formerly Voyager.net
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