Re: [expert] Pentium 200Mhz/MMX and Mandrake - Resource Efficient?

[Ellick Chan]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Anton Graham wrote:

> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 11:48:13 -0700
> From: Anton Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Pentium 200Mhz/MMX and Mandrake - Resource
>     Efficient?
> 
> Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Ellick Chan:
> > I recommend a Yamaha XG card, but that will cost you about $30 of OSS
> > drivers.
>  
> No longer :)!  I run my Yamaha YMF-724F (DS-XG) with ALSA drivers.
> Believe it or not, the sound quality is actually better than what I
> got with the commercial drivers from OSS.  You need the latest ALSA
> (0.58) for this support.
>

Your're correct, but I never got that to work on my Sony VAIO N505VX
laptop which has the YMF744b chip.
 
> There is also now support in the kernel (OSS-Free) for the SBPro
> "legacy mode" of the card, but it is poorly documented and I have been
> unable to make that work.
>

Somehow after the Win2k bios upgrade (which I thought would make it more
compatible) the SB emulation somehow got broken...
 
> 

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Regards,

Ellick Chan
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Jul 23