[expert] additional hardware
Hey all, in addition to the video card wuestion I fired off, after browsing through the parts at my disposal I noticed I have an Aureal Vrotex 2 superquad card (au8830) that isn't doing anything... Now I know that Aureal originally only released a set of beta drivers, but I was wondering if anyone has picked up what they left off... This was a great soundcard, and I wouldn't mind being able to use it again if it'll work under Linux. I'll only be using it for the occasional session of mpg123 :) The alternative is a tried and proven ES1371 based videocard that I've currently got running in this machine. Anyways, if someone could get back to me on that one I'd appreciate it as well. I think that's about it for now, so far the system is going to appear somewhat like this; AMD Duron 600 Gigabyte GA-7ZX-1 motherboard 512 MB SDRAM Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter 3 x 4.3GB UW SCSI hard drives 1 x Narrow SCSI CD-ROM drive 1 x 20GB IDE drive (purely for raw storage) Intel Pro 10/100 NIC Sound and video to be determined by the responses I get from your emails If you have any thoughts or suggestions please let me know... Cheers Current Linux kernel 2.4.3-20mdk uptime: 10 days 6 hours 23 minutes.
Re: [expert] additional hardware
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Lyric wrote: Hey all, Now I know that Aureal originally only released a set of beta drivers, but I was wondering if anyone has picked up what they left off... http://aureal.sourceforge.net/ is the current project to pick up where Aureal left off. Since it's still based on the binary drivers from Aureal and Aureal went out of business leaving only the binaries (how rude!), it sounds like more trouble than it's worth if you've got another card to use instead. The alternative is a tried and proven ES1371 based videocard that I've currently got running in this machine. I'd take option #2. ;) I've been using an es1371 since getting a motherboard w/o an isa slot, forcing me to give up using my GUS Max (a sad day to be sure) AMD Duron 600 Gigabyte GA-7ZX-1 motherboard 512 MB SDRAM Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter 3 x 4.3GB UW SCSI hard drives 1 x Narrow SCSI CD-ROM drive 1 x 20GB IDE drive (purely for raw storage) Intel Pro 10/100 NIC Sound and video to be determined by the responses I get from your emails If you have any thoughts or suggestions please let me know... Cheers Current Linux kernel 2.4.3-20mdk uptime: 10 days 6 hours 23 minutes.
