ESS 488 and 688

Linux-Sound:

What are the settings in 'make menuconfig' for ESS Technologies 488 and 688 sound cards when I'm configuring the kernel? Are they SB16 clones?

Joe

On Fri Oct 02 1998 00:00, root wrote:

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I have (in the past) used both these cards configured as SB16 clones. (Also had /dev/sbcd working to use cdroms hanging off them).

Cheers
Tony
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Tony Nugent <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Computer Support Officer Faculty of Science
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba Oueensland Australia
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Oops, typo. That should be /dev/sbpcd

Cheers
Tony

You configured them as generic SB-Clones, to be precise, as SB8pro.

There are no SB16-compatible cards out there. None at all.

This means, ESS-Boards tend to run only at 8Bit.

Christian Brandt

 Life is short and in most cases it ends with death - Sir Sinclair

Newer ESS chips like the 1688 have their own 16bit mode, which should be supported by Linux (haven't tried for quite some time tough).

Tom

Out of curiousity, should an ESS1868 work? I've never had any success, with mine but then I didn't bother configuring it with isapnptools.

If not, how hard is it to acquire documentation for said chipset?

Matthew.

Ah - there's your problem. Assuming you use isapnptools to configure it to something sane, it should work pretty much out of the box with the SB driver.

Bill