Subject: Re: PCMCIA sound cards
To: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@mail.augustsson.net>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/16/2000 13:25:22
Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>
>
>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:28:36PM -0500, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>>
>> > > Do we support any PCMCIA sound cards in 1.5 or -current, and if not, how
>> > > difficult would it be to make them work if they used a wss/sb chipset?
>> >
>> > AFAIK we don't support any. But it would be easy if they are wss/sb compatible.
>>
>> ...errr, except for the fact that PCMCIA doesn't support DMA (at least
>> in any chipset-independent way).
> Arrrghh!! Well, without DMA how can it be SB compatible?
I don't know if it's SB compatible for sure... but I did a quick search
and this is what I found:
From http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-devel%40jcu.cz/msg01313.html :
They claim to be Microsoft Sound System comaptible, as well as
Soundblaster, but I already know what this means.
Jared