On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 03:33:59PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, XRDLAB wrote: > > > >Didn't you read the documentation? There is no SB 16 compatible card on the > > >market. .......... > > > > > Yes, I read the documentation and it said that some cards might work. > > That is why I mentioned that the card "claims" to be compatible. > > The compatibility most cards claim is not a strict hardware compatibility, > but a software API compatibility of the Windows(TM) driver that comes with > the card, meaning that applications that expect a SB16 type of driver > will find a driver similar enough. That's what drivers do: they hide > complicated lowlevel information from applications, providing only the > Application Program Interface instead.
This is generally true, but there were indeed some SB compatible 8 bit Aztech sound cards on the market. Today the only SB compatible cards are produced by Creative Labs. Under the name Sound Blaster :) > You could note the numbers and text on the IC's and do: > > cd /usr/src/linux (or wherever you keep the kernel source) > grep "text fragment" `find drivers/sound -type f` > > Then, when it finds something, look at that file and maybe it'll tell you > more. I'm sorry, but this is all I can help you with. I doubt this would help (although it's worth a try). The sound driver OSS/Free is completely crap (the sources are ... let's not talk about it). The only chance are the Readme files in /usr/src/linux/driver/sound/. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
