Hi

with os4 coming next week i need to sort out sound on my A1.....is there totally no chance we are ever gonna have the onboard sound working on the AmigaOneXE?

if so then can anyone recomend any good cheap sound cards that will work good on my A1 and with os4?

cheers.

@Leki

There is no chance at all. Your board might even not have the chip on it at all either.

Cheap cards that work:
SB128
Terratec 512i
SB Live!

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@DaveAE

well it does have the chip....pitty they cant get it working.

i have an old sound card that i could take out of another comp....is it likly that os4 would support it?

@Leki

Depends on the card ofcourse!
If it's an SB128 (also called SB AudioPCI97, SB PCI, SB Vibra, SB 64(V)), it should work. SB16's don't work for example.

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@DaveAE

The card i have is a c-media CMI8738/PCI-SX

http://www.cmedia.com.tw/product/doc8738.htm

is this likely to work?

if not ill probably get a creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital.....they definatly work right? :)

cheers

@Leki

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if not ill probably get a creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital.....they definatly work right? :)

Yes. The SBLive 5.1 will work. If you have the money, I would go for that before a cheap CMI card.

About the onboard audio, it will never work on the original A1. From what I understand, it was designed without complete specs and therefore, never correctly connected (this has been fixed on the microA1). I do think they could have cut some costs by dropping the supporting chips and rear Audio Ports.

Your best bet is to just buy an inexpensive SBLive and you'll have much better sound than the onboard stuff anyway.

@Herewegoagain

The built-in gameport works though, so if the SB Audigy2 works with OS4,
might that be a good idea, since there is no gameport in it, instead there is Firewire.
If there will be a driver for the Firewire is another matter of course.

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@tomazkid

Uhm... he said _cheap_ board - last time I checked the Audigy 2 wasn't nowhere near being cheap...
But perhaps an Audigy bulk could do it

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Sorry if this is not the place to ask . . .

I would like to have a am/fm radio tuner for my A1. Would such a card work with the A1 and OS 4?

Thanks,

@Warrent

No...

Regards,

Ross..

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@rossv

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No...

Thanks for the answer. Maybe for OS 5 hehe

@Warrent

Don't get me wrong, the card could work if there was supporting drivers and software - there just isn't any of that right now, so presently, it can not work.

I'm sure someone can write drivers and supporting software before OS5

Regards,

Ross..

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@Juzz

I'm currently using a SBlive 5.1 digital board on my pegasos and sound
quality is wonderful. And it only costed me EUR 39, so yep, it can be
considered cheap I think :)

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tomazkid wrote: @Herewegoagain The built-in gameport works though, so if the SB Audigy2 works with OS4, might that be a good idea, since there is no gameport in it, instead there is Firewire. If there will be a driver for the Firewire is another matter of course.

The Audigy2 works fine.. I had one in my A1 at AmiGBG..

@Ross, that should have been.. "No. Not yet"

/shoe

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by Juzz on 5-Jun-2004 4:08:00 @tomazkid Uhm... he said _cheap_ board - last time I checked the Audigy 2 wasn't nowhere near being cheap... But perhaps an Audigy bulk could do it

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