Report on Linux-supported sound cards

[Robert Olson]

At 11:47 AM 6/27/99 -0600, Paul Hubbard wrote:
>I found an excellent web page devoted to audio quality under Linux, URL is 
>http://members.tripod.com/~slinkP/pw_linux/Audio-Quality-HOWTO.html
>
>Based on this page and my own experience, the Yamaha YMF724 (aka WaveForce
>192XG) would be a decent choice; they're about ~30USD locally and have
>excellent sound; I use them at home with good results.

Cool. Have you found linux drivers for them or is this under Windows? I
find the following in the OSS readmes:

>Release notes for the Yamaha XG PCI driver
>==========================================
>
>This driver is compatible with the PCI based YMF7xx chips made by Yamaha. In
>particular this driver supports YMF724, YMF735 and YMF740. 
>
>IMPORTANT!
>
>This driver is a separately priced option to OSS. In addition to the base
licen
>se
>you will need to select this "YMH" option when ordering your permanent OSS
>license.
>
>
>
>***************************************************************************
****
>At this moment the XG PCI driver is a BETA test version and only audio
playback
> and
>recording works. However there may be problems with certain applications.
Full 
>duplex
>is not supported yet.
>
>For the time being the hardware wave table features of this chip are not
>supported (there are no plans for this feature in near future).
>
>Support for audio playback the external MIDI port should be released soon.
>***************************************************************************
****

Looks like we'd have to wait on using the OSS drivers (cf
http://www.opensound.com/osshw.html for the list of supported software). I
don't see this card listed in the OSS/Free or ALSA docs.

--bob