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Re: Avance Logic Sound Card Under Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Nov 16 04:15:30 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 04:07:19 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Benjamin I Gennaria wrote:
> I have recently picked up a HI-Val 32X Multimedia Kit that was on sale at
> CompUSA (I know HI-Val is a cheap brand, but at thirty bucks it couldn't
> be beat). The sound card included is a Sountastic sound card. It is an
> Asound Gold that uses an Avance Logic chipset (yes, that is definately
> Avance, no misspell just so I can avoid confusion here) which claims to
> be compatible with a Sound Blaster 16 or Microsoft Windows Sound System.
> I highly doubt that it is truly register compatible or anything like
> that. I have it running fine under DOS and Win98. It does need a utility
> to intialize it under DOS because it is Plug and Pray, but I am pretty
> sure that Linux has PnP support built into the kernel with RedHat 5.2,
> correct? Anyway, I am wondering if anybody out there has used this card
> or knows if it is compatible with Linux. My last sound card was based on
> a Yamaha Opl3-sa chipset and I got that working first through the Windows
> Sound System Driver and then through the Yamaha driver that was in the
> OSS Free distribution. Would the Windows Sound System driver work with
> this card? Anyway, all help and suggestions are GREATLY appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
A Soundblaster 16 is probably better, and only costs $30 also.
Linux does not have full PnP support in the kernel, not yet. But the
PnP support for Soundblasters is fairly good.
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Jan Carlson
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