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Date:      Fri, 05 Sep 1997 10:39:41 +0900
From:      Ajith Pasqual <pasqual@hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
To:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it
Cc:        cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de, john@jwlab.feith.COM, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, Ajith Pasqual <pasqual@hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Subject:   Re: Updated support for Ensoniq SoundScape Elite or VIVO in FreeBSD-3.0
Message-ID:  <199709050139.KAA26310@hitomi.hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 4 Sep 1997 18:13:56 %2B0200 (MET DST)"
References:  <199709041613.SAA10544@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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Hi! Luigi,

luigi> for sure I am not working on the effect section, I guess your best chance
luigi> is to try out OSS. For the audio part, care to tell which driver did
luigi> not work for you, the one in the source tree, Amancio's driver (guspnp)
luigi> or mine (snd97XXXX.tgz) ?
luigi> 
luigi> Not having the cards, we need to know:
luigi> - what they are supposed to emulate;
luigi> - what chipset they use;
luigi> - if they are PnP, the output from pnpinfo.


 I happen to own a Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO 90 card.(PnP) And it is not
recognised at the boot probe under FreeBSD. (2.2-stable) (With Sujal's pnp
patch - this did the trick for my USR PnP modem) 

 It is supposed to have Soundblaster Emulation. But it DOES work when I
softboot to FreeBSD from DOS. So I guess it should be possible to make it work
under FreeBSD under Soundblaster Emulation. (It also works with OSS -I haven't
tried many applications. In any case they have only limited support for VIVO90)

 I haven't tried your sound driver and I intend to do it this weekend. I didn't
try Amancio's driver. 

I will send you the pnpinfo output as soon as I get it.

(One other thing : I've read that Ensoniq has been very generous in supporting
Linux. They have even donated a soundscape card) 

Since I don't have the manual with me right now, I got the specs from Ensoniq
Home Page.(http://www.ensoniq.com)

**********************************************************************

Hardware:

            ENSONIQ Wavetable Sound Set 
            Award Winning ENSONIQ OTTO 32, 32-bit Wavetable DSP Synthesizer 
            Up to 32 Simultaneous Voice Polyphony 
            16 MIDI channels 
            ENSONIQ 1 megabyte(compressed) Waveform ROM 
            16-bit Record/Playback at up to 48 kHz (mono/stereo) 
            16-bit A/D D/A CODEC 
            Lowest Noise: S/N 90 db (audio through) typical 
            Frequency response: 20Hz - 22kHz 
            128 General MIDI wavetable instruments, 61 drum programs, 128 MT-32 instruments 
            Full Duplex Operation (simultaneous Record/Playback) 
            Microsoft Direct Audio Compatible (Direct X) 
            MIDI/Joystick Interface (IBM 15 pin "D" type) 
            MPC 3 Compatible TAD/CDROM Connectors 
            Supported Industry Standards 

                  - AdLib
                  - Soundblaster Pro (2.0)
                  - General MIDI
                  - Windows Sound System
                  - MT-32
                  - FM (software emulation)
                  - MPC 1,2,3

            100% Tested to professional standards. Functional and AC parametric (THD, SNR,etc.)
            testing. Audio Precision test system. 
            External Connectors:
             (color coded) 

                  - Microphone/Line input (mono/stereo) (dynamic, electret)
                     Bias power for electret microphone provided
                  - CD/Aux input (stereo)
                  - Audio output (line level + headphones)
                  - Joystick/MIDI interface

            Internal MPC 3 Connectors 

                  - CD Audio
                  - CD/TV Tuner input
                  - MODEM/TAD speaker phone audio I/O

            6 Channel Mixer 

                  - CD/Aux
                  - Microphone/Line
                  - Synthesizer (MIDI)
                  - Sounds (WAVE) (.WAV, .VOC files)
                  - TV/Aux Input
                  - Modem/TAD

            IRQ's available 2/9, 5, 7, 10, 11, 15 
            DMA Channels available 0, 1, 3 
            Reliable Plug and Play 

(DMA & IRQ's Plug and Play or Software Configured)
****************************************************************************

Best Regards,
Ajith.
PS: What you're doing is REALLY GREAT work!! Keep it up. 
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Ajith Pasqual - Hatori-Aizawa Lab., Dept of Info. & Comm. Eng., Univ. of Tokyo.
Email:pasqual@hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (WWW)http://www.hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~pasqual/
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