From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Feb 21 10: 2: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail.brfmasthugget.se (mail.thalamus.nu [212.31.160.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461C937B402 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:01:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from lockdown.nodomain [212.31.164.147] by mail.brfmasthugget.se (SMTPD32-7.05) id A615ECC0150; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:01:57 +0100 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:01:57 +0100 From: Martin Faxér To: Danovitsch@Danovitsch.dnsq.org Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: No FM synthesizer in PCI soundblasters? Message-Id: <20020221190157.7be685b2.gmh003532@brfmasthugget.se> In-Reply-To: <02022118511701.03193@FreeBSD.Danovitsch.LAN> References: <02022118511701.03193@FreeBSD.Danovitsch.LAN> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd5.0) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:51:17 +0100 "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" wrote: > > The system is currently running FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE, and it has no "vchans". > Since what version of FreeBSD is this feature included? I'm not quite sure... It should definitely be in 4.5-RELEASE, and I think 4.4-RELEASE too. You could try searching the CVS logs or asking Cameron Grant. > > But I would still prefere to use a FM synthesizer for this job, since I only > want some beep's. > Having the kernel mix two streams into one looks to me as a waste of > CPU-cycles on the Pentium-133 I set up for this job, if it is also possible > to just turn on/off a simple tone and let the soundblaster take care of the > mixing... Actually, I think that FM synthesizer support in -STABLE isn't really mature, if it even exists at all (although I'm not 100% sure, perhaps you'd be better off asking Cameron Grant here too). I don't think the vchan mixing will waste too many CPU cycles, if the upgrade isn't a problem. > > -- > Control the lights in my room: > http://www.Danovitsch.dnsq.org/webcam > > Moo, > ]:8) > > 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