Subject: Re: Anyone tried to use USB sound?
To: Matthew Orgass <darkstar@city-net.com>
From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 02/03/2005 20:30:23
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 21:32:09 -0500 (EST), Matthew Orgass
<darkstar@city-net.com> wrote:
> On 2005-02-03 acruhl@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > My Mobilepro 880 has a USB port, so I'm fairly interested in trying to
> > get a USB sound card that will work. Has anyone used one? Even on
> > another port? It would be beyond cool to listen to music on this thing
> > while doing other stuff.
> 
>   I have a iMic that works well on i386 and with my Ratoc USB CF driver on
> my Clio from a .wav file for the part of the file that is already in
> memory.  With ohci on the mobilepro it should work fine for wav files and
> some network audio protocols, but the system might not be fast enough to
> play mp3s.

Hmm.... I've played mp3s on my SparcStation1, that's a very slow box.
And also a 486...

Then again, the Mobilepro seems to be pretty slow even though it is a
170 mhz machine.

Thanks.

Andy