Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:41:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> Cc: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, john sconier <kns@enteract.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sound on laptop Dell Latitude cpi?? Message-ID: <19990805084106.N62948@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199908041233.HAA56458@freeside.fc.net>; from Jerry Dunham on Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 07:33:32AM -0500 References: <19990804003832.A91888@hyperhost.net> <199908041233.HAA56458@freeside.fc.net>
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On Wednesday, 4 August 1999 at 7:33:32 -0500, Jerry Dunham wrote: > Patrick Seal babbled: >> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:38:32 -0400 >> From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> >> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> >> Cc: john sconier <kns@enteract.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, >> freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > >> On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 11:02:02AM +0930i, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 19:59:02 -0400, Patrick Seal wrote: >>>> >>>> the pcm driver works for me: >>>> >>>> device pcm0 at isa? port? tty irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 >>>> >>>> Note that I have a Latitude CPi 266 (the older big screen one) >>> >>> That sounds identical to mine. How's the volume compared with >>> Microsoft? >> >> Oh geez, even with headphones it's not even worth it. I've never tried >> it with windows, so I don't know if it's just crappy sound or the FreeBSD >> sound drivers. > > Hmmm.... Mine seems plenty loud enough, but I'm currently running NT4. I > only have FreeBSD on an older Latitude with no audio. My guess is that > you're seeing a software problem, not a hardware problem, but, of course, > your particular machine could have something going on that's unique to it. As I mentioned earlier, I have both Microsoft and FreeBSD on my CTi. I wouldn't call the sound under FreeBSD "crappy", but the level is *much* below that of Microsoft. I'd agree that this is probably a software problem. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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