From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 29 19:00:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA01285 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 May 1995 19:00:03 -0700 Received: from netcom14.netcom.com (root@netcom14.netcom.com [192.100.81.126]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA07358 for ; Mon, 29 May 1995 13:46:08 -0700 Received: by netcom14.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id NAA16540; Mon, 29 May 1995 13:40:42 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 13:40:42 -0700 From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Message-Id: <199505292040.NAA16540@netcom14.netcom.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, vat@ee.lbl.gov Subject: Re: vat Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > > > >Anything that could be done to get them to make vat/sd/wb binaries > > >for freebsd? The following forwarded from the rem-conf mbone list. > > > > Yeap, instant constant flame specially after his stupid announcement > > about the audio stuff. > what stupid announcement? > > > > I already sent my flame.... > I think FLAME isn not the way to make friends.. > > > > Amancio > > > > > I sent him a message pointing out that as we can run the BSDI binaries with > some ammount of success, that to produce a native binary should not be too > much of a problem, and that we can make all resources he needs available > to help him do it.... Many including myself for the past few years have mailed him the same information and we have received NIL back from him. *Steve Macanne* at least was very kind to respond. Kudos to him in the diplomacy area! > > julian > > >From his posting: We have a PAS-16 on order (the one card we know of that does full duplex audio) and hope to work on full-duplex linux audio support whenever it shows up. That's probably at least a month away. ---- The PAS-16 are problematic and in some motherboards it generates a horrible noise . The work around is to defined in the linux sound driver "BROKEN_BUS_CLOCK". They are other quality issues with the PAS-16. They are well aware that the GUSes support dual dma in fact Steve Mcanne forwards people to me so I can give them the code. --- > - The linux audio driver doesn't include any way to set the > play or record volume so the volume sliders do nothing. Dumb again, if Van doesn't know how all he has to do is ask! Later, Amancio