[iyonix-support] Re: Additional sound card

On Wed 25 Jun, Xavier Tardy wrote:
> 
> Hi John.
> 
> I guess that even if you had found a card that could fit in the Iyonix, 
> you wouldn't see the card working without the right driver,
> this nice little piece of software that tells the card what to do.
> It's the same problem the linux people have with peripherals that their 
> OS can't use unless the maker provides 'openly' informations
> on how to address (is that correct) the card.
> Lately I read that this approach greatly improves... but for RISC OS 
> there still is a lack of programmers willing to write OS compliant
> drivers ...

Simon Wilson has done a driver for a particular Soundblaster card but it is
quite limited, and the particular Soundblaster card isn't available anymore!

I don't think Simon has had any time to do any further work on it.

see:
http://www.simonrules.com/iyonixsblive/

 
> Regards,
> Xavier.
> 
> John a écrit :
> > Has anyone managed to fit a PCI sound card to the Iyonix? I saw this
> > Gamesurround PCI Sound Card L-8738-6C going cheap on eBay and took a chance
> > on it. 
> >
> > Having assumed wrongly that  it would fit, I now see that the pin
> > arrangement is wrong: this one has a block of 49 pins then 7pins, counting
> > from the outside of the case whereas the Iyo has 11(?) followed by 49(?)
> >
> > Is there a card which can be used to enhance the not-wonderful sound
> > performance?
> >
> > John
> >
> >   
> 
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