[colorforth] PCI Soundcard

["Alice Maroudas" <alice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Eric

Thanks.  Indeed, Linux  /emu10k1/8010.h showeth the mystery
of PCI registers (GNU free, copyright Creative Inc).  Moreover,
warneth:  "Weird things can happen if you try some of the old 
legacy stuff under Linux.  Dont!"

I go forth in fear and trembling.

Nick Maroudas


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Eric Laforest <ecl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: colorforth List Member <colorforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 3:23 PM
Subject: [colorforth] PCI Soundcard


> On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 12:38:25PM +0200, Alice Maroudas thus spake:
> > 
> >                2.  Why should one have to write for a virtual Legacy 
> > device (io base 220) when the soundcard is a real PCI 
> > device (io base a801)?  I asked the company for help, but the 
> > answer was "lowlevel information about our PCI devices is 
> > regarded as proprietary".    
> > 
> > Before I change to an open-source DAC, can anyone suggest a 
> > non-proprietary way to play Bernd's tada.wav explicitly thru the 
> > SB PCI registers?  
> 
> By a PCI SB card, I presume you mean an 'SBLive!' card?
> AFAIK, all SB cards are supported under Linux using freely available
> drivers.
> 
> Look in the Linux kernel sources, under drivers/sound.
> (and possibly drivers/sound/emu10k1 too) 
> 
> -- 
> Eric LaForest
> http://pet.dhs.org/~ecl/
> ------------------------


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