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Date:      Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:52:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        geoff martindale <gjm@hal2.soas.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SoundCard on a laptop
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961106225152.12066a-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9611070934.AA12401@soas.ac.uk>

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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, geoff martindale wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone has any experience of 
> SoundBlaster compatible cards on a laptop,
> FreeBSD 2.1.5.
> With the sb0 device compiled into the kernel I
> get
> 
> sb0 at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 on isa
> sb0: <SoundBlaster Pro 3.1>
> 
> which agrees with the values I configured from DOS.
> If I try to 'cat speech.wav > /dev/dsp' the loudspeaker
> clicks once and then nothing else happens.
> I have a SB 16 card on another machine which works OK
> so perhaps there is a simple reason why the SB Pro
> compatible doesn't work.


Dunno.  Try using socks and piping the output through it, generaing au
output, and put it into /dev/audio.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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