From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Mar 14 20:12:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from BSDpc.geek4food.org (adsl-216-103-105-71.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.103.105.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D53AB37B8CA for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:12:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy@geek4food.org) Received: from mega.geek4food.org (mega.geek4food.org [192.168.1.57]) by BSDpc.geek4food.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4521C406; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 04:12:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mega.geek4food.org (localhost.geek4food.org [127.0.0.1]) by mega.geek4food.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA15188; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:12:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy@geek4food.org) Message-Id: <200003150412.UAA15188@mega.geek4food.org> To: "Kevin S. Brackett" Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AWE32 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:48:46 EST." Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:12:18 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Your message dated: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:48:46 EST >Few questions... > >awe0 at 0x620 on isa >awe0: > > ^^^^^^^ I know the board has no extra ram >on-board, but does this mean the it has no ram period? Yup, I think so. That's what my AWE32 daughterboard used to probe as before I put memory in it... Insert 30-pin SIMM(s) in the provided slots. Should be dirt cheap these days :=) I don't know what the maximum is, but a couple of 4Mb SIMMs work fine, this from a 3.x-STABLE message file: Nov 30 22:34:55 mega /kernel: awe0 at 0x620 on isa Nov 30 22:34:56 mega /kernel: awe0: Unfortunately, I can't use VoxWare (and thus the AWE driver) anymore with -CURRENT. Maybe I should sell you my memory :-/ >I don't use windows, so I had to download some synthgm.sbks (I got a few >assorted ones, including the default for the awe64) they all sound very >similar, but nothing near to what they should sound like... ie, I get alot >of different assorted screaching noises and other oddness while playing >midis, hopefully this isn't normal, and the card works in beos fine,... From the AWEDRV FAQ (http://members.tripod.de/iwai/awedrv-faq.html#Q3.2): Q3.2: I have no DRAM in my card - can I still play midi files with it? Chris Wedgwood answers: Yes. You can use the default ROM fonts that are built into the card. However, it won't necessarily sound very good. I think that the ROM fonts are pretty small, I seem to remember 512K, but I wouldn't swear to it. That'd account for them sounding the same, I think :-) You are using an AWE-aware MIDI player, right? FWIW, at least for the commercial GM MIDI patches, there's a noticeable difference between the 2, 4 and 8Mb sets (i.e. not just file size in factors of 1024^2 bytes! ;-) Cheers, Andy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message