On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 15:15 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi, I hear that ForteMedia FM801 based cheapo PCI sound cards > are pretty DOS compatible without extra drivers, you should try > to get one of those (I never managed to, the cheap PCI sound > cards now all use crappy CMedia chips with good Linux / Windows > sound and mostly broken DOS sound). Best for DOS are of course > ISA soundcards with SoundBlaster compatibility of any kind > (preferrably stereo 16 bit of course). Some newer PnP ISA cards > need the BIOS setting "PnP OS installed: no" or need a PnP init > tool like Intel Plug and Play Manager or some software which > ships with the card / can be downloaded, but after that, all ISA > SB compatible soundcards are really SB compatible. This is not > the case for PCI soundcards with some less-compatible chipsets > like the SoundBlaster Live PCI: Those need big complex special > (downloadable / shipped with the card) > drivers to simulate DOS SoundBlaster compatibility while the > hardware is not actually very compatible. > I have an ASOUND card from a few years ago with dos / win311 drivers. Its ALS4000 which runs great in linus from which I do all email now.
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