Re: PCI-X vs sound card issues ...

[Adriel Torres <ladr.torres%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,

I don't want to bash the Creative Audigy/Soundblaster cards but having
worked professionally in audio before, I have known them to be very buggy
and the cause of many obscure problems on all platforms (supported or not).

I hope you can find a working solution and update the list if you find
something.  Regards

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Chuck Swiger <cswiger%mac.com@localhost> 
wrote:

> On Apr 17, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> > So ... I guess my question is this: What sound cards would work with
> > the 100MHz PCI-X bus and has anyone found these to work with NetBSD?
>
> Many PCI-X machines were designed with multiple busses-- one or more for
> higher-speed devices, and one for slower devices.  If you've got a choice of
> slots, try other ones and see whether that helps.  Especially if you can use
> a real PCI slot rather than putting the card into a PCI-X slot....
>
> Regards,
> --
> -Chuck