From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Feb 12 01:30:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03414 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 01:30:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA03409 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 01:30:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02002; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 01:30:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199802120930.BAA02002@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 to: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any cards that work? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Feb 1998 06:14:25 +0100." <199802120514.GAA18623@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 01:30:26 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The problem that I have with CS42xx low end cards is that they are cheap and noisy but hey I am pretty sure that the low quality does not bother some ( I am not been sarcastic). S3 has come out with a new codec chipset, VIBES, which promises to be an okay sound card and most implementations based on VIBES are PCI sound cards. I started writing a driver a little while ago and just need to wrap it up . NO promises as to how the driver/VIBES is going to perform till I am finished coding up the driver and have tested it. I am probably about 3 man days from wrapping up the driver just got to find the time to do it. Amancio > > > Can anyone recommend a U.S. source for the GUS PnP cards? > > > > Good luck - Gravis got out of the sound business, they aren't made > > anymore. As mentioned, Fry's might have some leftovers. > > and IMHO it's not such a good idea to get a discontinued product. > you'll be left with continuously decreasing support. > > I know that most references on suitable cards for audioconferencing > (which I seems to remember was the original motivation) still claim the > GUSPnP is the only good one, but those references are definitely out of > date (and I wish people who maintain those pages would go and fix > them.... hint hint...). > > At the risk of being annoying: my audio driver (in -current, and > probably going in -stable as well) supports full duplex very well > on a wide range of new, cheap, PnP audio cards. The latest (binary) > distributions of the MASH tools from www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu > already support my driver (although they web pages still comment > the GUSPnP as the card of choice...). > > cheers > luigi > -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- > Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione > email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa > tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) > fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ > _____________________________|______________________________________ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message