From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Mar 8 18: 5:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB9114BD4 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:05:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-14-253.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.14.253]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA32444; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 20:04:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA58188; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 20:04:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199903090204.UAA58188@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chuck Robey Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Sound card In-reply-to: Message from Chuck Robey of "Mon, 08 Mar 1999 16:51:47 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 20:04:45 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chuck Robey writes: > Can anyone translate from the CARDS list of chips in > /sys/i386/isa/snd/CARDS to at least ONE real sound card that's still > being sold, that I can buy? (recoomendations like a GUS card, that > isn't being sold anymore, fall into the useless category). I researched things too hard and bought an AOpen AW37 not-Pro. Largely because the Crystal Semiconductor parts were highly recommended and I was impressed with the .pdf manuals at the CS site. The chip/card claims an 85 dB signal to noise ratio too. And it just doesn't work under FreeBSD. Its like the DAC is configured in the wrong mode or something. I beat on the driver a bit but never figured it out. Believe there is some initialization code that isn't being done quite the way the CS docs say. The replacement I hacked in didn't fix it either. Of course it works under NT, but that's not what I bought it for. Several months ago was walking thru a 'puter show having only seen a $2 fan worth buying when at one table I saw some cheap sound cards. $14 each. One had a chip recognizable as Yamaha 719F. That was the latest cheap chip I'd heard of on this list that worked well and reliably with Luigi's driver. So I splurged. The Windows utilities on the CDROM require a serial number to enable. No serial number on the box or card works. But the drivers worked. And it works like a charm under FreeBSD too. Certainly doesn't have the S/N ratio of the AOpen card as I have had to turn off my AR Powered Partner speakers when I'm not looking to make FreeBSD noise. Its been a long time since I've booted into NT, but I think the NT driver was doing something to mute the speakers when not in use. This weekend is another one of the travelling salesman computer "shows". I might go and buy some $5 speakers to solve my noisy sound card problem. :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message