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From: David LaCroix <dlacroix@phantasma.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
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To: korty@physics.purdue.edu, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: PAS 16 playing an octave too high
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In article <199604051335.IAA14433@london.physics.purdue.edu> you wrote:
: Greetings.  My sound was working fine until I reinstalled FreeBSD
: after a hard drive crash (due to an incident involving MS-DOS that I
: would rather not discuss :-/).  Now everything I play (.wav files and
: .au files) is one (or perhaps two) octaves too high and twice (or four
: times) as fast.  I'm using the NAS software, which doesn't seem to
: be at fault because "auedit" reports the correct duration of the
: sounds.  I can't get "rplay" to work, so I can't test NAS for certain.
: Also, the sound is fine under DOS (booting from a floppy), so it's not
: the sound card.  It seems that my configuration of the kernel must be
: at fault.  However, I've recompiled the kernel many times, removing
: support for OPL, removing SoundBlaster emulation, etc., to no avail.
: Perhaps it is some other kernel parameter I screwed up that changes
: the ISA bus speed or something.

: Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?

I haven't had time to play with NAS lately, but back when I ran linux 
(a year ago), I tried NAS.  I had exactly the same problem.  I don't think 
it is directly related to the Kernel sound drivers.  Anyhow, the way I 
always fixed it was to (in auedit) change the "sample rate" and set it back
(then hit the play button).  You may have to play it once with the sample 
rate changed.  :)    After this NAS seems to function correctly...

If you didn't already know, Linux and FreeBSD have virtually the same sound 
drivers (or at least did)


You may not know this, but FreeBSD can "play" the .au files directly...   
Just "cat foo.au >/dev/audio" should work fine.  :)

Have fun...