Kurt Garloff writes: >On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 01:12:54PM -0500, Brendan Bye-Bye Coleridge Cully >wrote: >> Does anyone know anything about the PCI128? I can get >> sound out of this board with modprobe 1370 (not 1371? >> is the 128 inferior to the 64?), but the drivers >> that come with the kernel seem to get a lot of DMA >> timeouts, and programs often seem to hang trying to >> open /dev/dsp (don't receive TERM, either, only KILL), >> after which nothing can use sound... so I guess the >> chip isn't identical.
I use a SB PCI128 with 2.1.129, and it works fine. The PCI128 is, in fact a ES1370, so use that driver. Sound volume was a bit low for me by default, but that's easily fixed with a mixer program like cat, which you can run at boot time.