Re: Sound cards on the Alpha.

[Maurice Hilarius <maurice harddata com>]

With regards to your message at 01:11 PM 03-08-99 +1100, Daniel Potts.
Where you stated:
>On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Rob McIlhargie wrote:
>
>> 
>>   Does the Creative Labs Ensoniq card work on the Alpha? Is it necessary
to 
>> buy a copy of the Opensource Sound System to get this working? I just
>> installed GNOME v1.0 and Enlightenment and would like to try adding sound
>> to my Alpha.
>
>Ensoniq doesnt work on all alphas for some fairly unknown reason. Try it
>if you like, but it typically does not work. I've tried the OSS, with the
>same results (hard crash) but they may work.
>
They work on newer Alphas, such as LX, SX, UX, Miata, DP264, etc.
Older ones have problems assigning an IRQ from what I have seen/heard. This
is a "pure" PnP device.

As I said a couple of months ago, OSS seems ot handle most machines with
the PCI64 (Ensoniq) and it is SUCH a nice tool I recommend it. Unless you
can't afford the $20 I guess..


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