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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:20:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Kwang-Soo Kim <kimk@cs.unc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: YAMAHA WAVETBLE sound card
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980123131947.8161s-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34C75FF6.F676C544@cs.unc.edu>

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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Kwang-Soo Kim wrote:

> Yes, you seem to be right.
> I also checked another FreeBSD machine which has AWE32 sound card with
> the same kernel. It clearly says supporting "SoundBlaster 16" not the
> "SoundBlaster Pro":
> 
> sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa
> sb0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13>
> sbxvi0 at 0x0 drq 5 on isa
> sbxvi0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13>
> sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa
>  <SoundBlaster MPU-401>

Yup, I have one of those cards.  Very nice.

> It's hard to believe that the new 300MHz motherboard has an 8-bit sound
> card on it. Thus I thought it's a matter of driver problem.

One word: cheap.  The chips that drive these (the Crystal CS4231) are
really inexpensive and do full-duplex audio.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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