From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Sep 24 23:40:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA29889 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 23:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA29860 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 23:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id HAA23400; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:27:50 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199709250527.HAA23400@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: snd970924.tgz available... To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:27:49 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199709250558.WAA00813@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Sep 24, 97 10:58:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, > > I have been testing your sound driver for about 1/2 hour. > > Overall vat seems to work rather well however I am getting a slight > subtle click on the background. I think is the recording generating is this with vat or other programs ? > the click because I just did "cat /dev/audio0" and managed to hear > the click actually "cat file.au >/dev/audio0" also generates > the click. may be an artifact of not using auto-dma (although you should only hear that if your interrupt takes more than 16 samples to respond, which is 2ms, quite a long time for a modern machine...) > Also I hear a high freguency pitch on the background. that I don't know... maybe it's just poor decoupling on the analog section of the card... at times the "LINE OUT" has a better quality than "SPKR" output... > Then later on I got: > > pcm0 at 0xffff irq -1 drq -1 mem 0x0 flags 0x0 en 1 confl 0 yes, it is a bit too verbose but it helps testing... > My config line is: > > controller pnp0 # this is required for PnP support > > device pcm0 at isa ? port? tty vector pcmintr > > My card is an AcerOpen AW32 Pro Wave Table Audio Card about ($60). probably similar to the AOpen card I have seen. The instruction booklet has a copyright where the right owner etc. is always "This Company" so I expect the same hardware to be sold under several different names. > It has a CS4236 in it. > > ------- > > Not ready yet to dump my GUS PnP 8) I think the card is good, just my driver sucks :) BTW in the new driver I tried to put the instructions to set up the GUSpnp as you suggested. I tried to look which ones were just CS4231 init (already present) and which ones were related to the IW -- should this make your life easier... Cheers Luigi