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From: Ulf Axelsson <Ulf.Axelsson@ore.ims.se>
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Subject: ESS1878 driver
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Hi!

Some questions:

Perhaps there should be a common driver for ESS1868/69/78/79 that
handles the probably (looks like that in the docs) minor differences
between the cards?

The docs say that you almost definitely have to use PNP to configure
the card (can be done manually but then you have to allocate unused
ports etc yourself). But when using it in ESS1688 compatibility mode
I need no PNP-initialization ?? (I boot linux through DOS but do
no initialization of sound there)

The card obviously can record and play 16bit 44Khz stereo sound. I
tested under WinNT and it appeared to work. CD^3 uses ESS1868 and they
claim they can do 16bit 44Khz stereo sound. Why does the docs say
that 16bit 22Khz stereo is the maximum programmable output rate?
(Or am I misreading the docs?)

/Ulf

