From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 6 22:53:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-mobile Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA05137 for mobile-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:53:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA05119; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:53:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA12253; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:52:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:52:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: geoff martindale cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SoundCard on a laptop In-Reply-To: <9611070934.AA12401@soas.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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: > > 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