From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jul 30 23:58:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA10632 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:58:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA10627 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA00462; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707310657.XAA00462@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Luigi Rizzo cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/guspnp14.tar.gz In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Jul 1997 06:51:56 +0200." <199707310451.GAA05130@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:57:27 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, auto dma may not be useful for the SB line of cards is very difficult to implement and that can be overcome;however, I think that you have to reset the sb blaster every time that you do a dma halt and for applications such as rplay or vat that may not be a good think . Don't know if the sun's /dev/audio interprets the header it shouldn't. Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Luigi Rizzo : > > I took out the auto dma feature from the sound blaster side and it looks > > like the driver behaves much better. > > it's funny that you disable auto dma just while I was thinking on how > to implement it :) > > > The click at the start and end of a sound stream is gone ;however, > > there is a loud click at the start of sound stream which has > > a sun style header -- thats not really a surprise. However, > > does /dev/audio on the sun strip the header ? I can try to do that for > /dev/audio, if useful. > > Cheers > Luigi