Subject: Re: PCI Sound Cards
To: Chris Ewert <chris_ewert@hotmail.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/14/1998 17:44:56
> I need to get a PCI sound blaster compatable card to work in my 
> computer.

AFAIK, none of the PCI sound cards are actually compatible with the
SoundBlaster.  What they do is trap accesses to certain ports
(including the ISA DMA registers) and emulate the accesses in
software.  Even to make this emulation work, you'd still need a lot of
card-specific driver support.

That said, we now have a (native, not emulated) driver for one of
these cards -- the Ensoniq AudioPCI.  We definitely need a driver for
the new S3 sound chip, though.