Re: [Sheflug] sound cards for Red Hat Linux 6.2?

[Matt Fairtlough <nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

Dear Will,

>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:08:02 +0100 (BST)
>From: Will Newton <will [at] misconception.org.uk>
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>
>A PCI SB card should be just fine (I understand the concept of a memory
>hole is purely for ISA).

well, that may be so, but: if I boot win2k without the memory hole
everything freezes a second after the sound card starts producing sound,
and with the memory hole there is no problem (aside from incompatibility
with Linux).  But this is getting off topic and I guess most of you won't
be too pleased with a thread discussing windoze details...

>Even the SBlive (with all it's dinky gadgets) works OK.
>
>Cards with crystal, c-media, ad1848 and variants all work. I would
>reccomend something fairly common that doesn't have too many
>"prosumer" features. And avoid ISA like the plague.

well I didn't even like the look of the slot (nasty big brown thing) to
tell the truth--and only one of them :)

cheers,

Matt.

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