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From: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net>
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Daniel M. Eischen wrote:

> > Anybody tried the pcm driver with the ESS 1868 sound card?  The sound
> > only comes out of the left channel.  Both speakers are working, but with
> > the Luigi sound code, sound only comes out of the left speaker.  With
> > the voxware driver, both speakers work.  Maybe a problem with full/half
> > duplex?
>
> The voxware driver works fine for the ESS1868 in my laptop, but with
> the PCM driver, I get a horrendous feedback sound and it doesn't
> work well at all.  I haven't had a chance to pick through the
> code and see what the differences are between PCM and Voxware
> ESS1868 support.
>
> DE

I just tried it, and I get lots of distortion with real-video files (they
STILL don't have RealPlayer 5.0 for FreeBSD yet).  But simple stuff plays
well, like

cat sound.au > /dev/audio ## comes out left channel only.

Donn


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