From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 22 22:02:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA13491 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 22:02:08 -0700 Received: from star-gate.com (hasty.vip.best.com [204.156.141.143]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA13485 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 22:02:05 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by star-gate.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA00566 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 13:04:55 GMT Message-Id: <199504221304.NAA00566@star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: star-gate.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6delta 4/7/95 To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Sound driver V30 available Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 13:04:54 +0000 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -------- The new sound driver and vmix is available at : ftp.shell.best.com:/pub/hasty/sndv3.x.tar.gz ftp.shell.best.com:/pub/hasty/vmix.tar.gz If you do decide to try the new sound driver, then make sure that : (a) you copy /sys/i386/isa/sound{ultrasound.h soundcard.h} to /usr/include/machine (b) recompile your sound apps If you have a plain old GUS after recompiling the apps everything should work for you . I recompiled all the sound apps available in FreeBSD-current and tested them with my GUS. The available sound driver is configured for my GUS MAX. The GUS MAX support needs a bit more work;however, the driver as it is configured it works with maplay, gmod , playmidi, adagio's mp, and nas. With my P66 I was able to play a 44.1k stereo sample mpeg file. There is a bug in the MAX's /dev/audio code or the (CS4321) code which makes playback to /dev/audio stop however mod players and midi players are still able to work. Last but not least I just got a GUS MAX so hopefully I should be able to beef up the MAX support. If others are interested in tinkering with the driver, Jim included in the driver Gravi's documentations for their sound kit -- ultrawrd.ps. There is no vat driver available with this release. The plan is to use Jim's vmix tool which interfaces to vat via a socket interface. This should in theory work with all supported sound cards. vmix is a pre-alpha release and I hope that by making the sources available others will be able to contribute and make it a robust tool. vmix is also a mix a tcl/tk interface to the mixers so you can control mic, line, pcm, synth devices... Just build it and play with it. Many thanks to Hannu Savolainen for making V30 available and to Jim Lowe for all his cools hacks :) I have to go now Bettina is pacing up and down ready to tear my head off... Enjoy, Amancio