From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 4 16:11:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77DE15474; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 16:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA08582; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:41:12 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA71011; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:41:06 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:41:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jerry Dunham Cc: Patrick Seal , john sconier , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sound on laptop Dell Latitude cpi?? Message-ID: <19990805084106.N62948@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990804003832.A91888@hyperhost.net> <199908041233.HAA56458@freeside.fc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908041233.HAA56458@freeside.fc.net>; from Jerry Dunham on Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 07:33:32AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 >> To: Greg Lehey >> Cc: john sconier , 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