Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 00:10:52 -0400 (EDT) From: bah6f@server.cs.virginia.edu To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MBone Connection Message-ID: <9510040410.AA20892@viper.cs.Virginia.EDU>
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First off, a disclaimer: I'm not one of the cool guys who is writing all the code to make it work, I'm just knee-deep in trying to get it working on my own machine. I can tell you what has worked for me and what the developers have told me. (Perhaps if I do this well, I'll save them the trouble of replying, so they can keep working on cool software) :) Rodolfo Heitor Gevaerd de Faria writes: -> What are the current available drivers for Audio and Video hardware ? The only audio card that will do full-duplex audio under FreeBSD is the GUS. All other cards are half-duplex, and they might not work. If you have to use a soundblaster, the best you can hope for is to use it for your microphone and have the audio played out of the PC speaker. Just the thought of that convinced me to buy a GUS. The GUS MAX is roughly US$155. After a few hours of playing with it, I got it working. It now works fine. For video, you have apparently 2 choices. The Creative Labs Video Spigot and the Matrox Meteor. The Video Spigot is no longer manufactured by Creative Labs, so you will have a hard time finding one. I understand that Matrox sells their Meteor cards directly. The contact info is in the mail archives. Just search for "Matrox". If you want to use some other combination of hardware, you have to write the drivers yourself (or wait for these guys to write one for you). -> Is anyone working on anything that's not in the standard distributions. Most everything that is useful is in 2.2-current. A substantial part of that is also in 2.1-stable. If you want the latest drivers for the Matrox and Video Spigot, you'll need to get -current, though. -> I have read that the best Audio card for Mbone is the GUS. Is there -> any other card (Besides PAS or SB) ? There are other cards that are supported by FreeBSD, but none of them are full-duplex, like the GUS. That is why it is the best (only) card for MBONE stuff. -> I was thinking about using a Video Blaster RT300, but someone told me -> that the Video Blaster has some serious problems if you have more than -> 16Mbytes of RAM. Beside that, I think that there is no one that is working -> in a device driver for it. I can't say anything about what it does with 16Mb RAM, but the fact that there is no driver is enough to convince me to buy something else. :) If you download the sources for FreeBSD-current and do "make world" you should get the latest versions of these drivers and you'll be up-to-date. Of course, all the standard warnings about running -current apply. It's been simple and stable for me so far, but the machine running it is unused most of the time. That's what I know. I think I'm accurate, but I know the experts will step in if I've made a mistake. Paco -- Brian "Paco" Hope Research Assistant, Technical Support Staff email: paco@virginia.edu Department of Computer Science WWW: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~bah6f/ University of Virginia
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