Subject: Re: PCMCIA sound cards
To: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@mail.augustsson.net>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/16/2000 13:25:22
Lennart Augustsson wrote:

> Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:28:36PM -0500, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>> 
>>  > > Do we support any PCMCIA sound cards in 1.5 or -current, and if not, how
>>  > > difficult would it be to make them work if they used a wss/sb chipset?
>>  >
>>  > AFAIK we don't support any.  But it would be easy if they are wss/sb compatible.
>> 
>> ...errr, except for the fact that PCMCIA doesn't support DMA (at least
>> in any chipset-independent way).
> Arrrghh!!  Well, without DMA how can it be SB compatible?

I don't know if it's SB compatible for sure... but I did a quick search 
and this is what I found:

 From http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-devel%40jcu.cz/msg01313.html :

They claim to be Microsoft Sound System comaptible, as well as 
Soundblaster, but I already know what this means.

Jared