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Date:	Sat, 4 Dec 2004 06:30:01 PST8
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	"SCOUG Help" <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: SoundBlaster Audio Card Info

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Harry Motin wrote:

>On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:48:25 -0800, Jerry Rash wrote:
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>>Consider the C-Media 87xx Series cards. (Genericly sold under many brands)
>>The driver was created from the SB-Live driver source with add'l updates.
>>The card retails for about $9.99-12.99
>>Supports Rear Speaker Volume <-Missing in the SB-Live
>>Supports up to 6 channel sound- (Only in Warpvision so far)- Also
>>depends on which 87xx chipset.
>>Has all the abilities of the SB card except MIDI as well.
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>Jerry,
>If I go with a C-Media 87xx series card, where can I find the driver? Use the uniaud
>driver? Thanks.
>HCM
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No, Although the Uniaud driver will work,
The extra features (# of sound channels, and a better mixer system) only
exist in the C-Media port of the SB-Live driver found here.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/sound/cmedia019.zip
The author never submitted the final version but these drivers as beta
are better than most production sound drivers for OS/2. I find the card
a rare event in OS/2 as we usually only get drivers for more expensive
cards.
You had brought up linux, I have no rating from anyone on the drivers
for that platform. I know the SB-Live is well supported in Linux.
Something to consider since more than one windoze user has complained
about the driver quality of the C-Media card.

FYI,
I tried to post this to the SCOUG Help group but was rejected.
I'll send Steward a note to fix that..

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