From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 3 14:07:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA00151 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 14:07:05 -0800 Received: from nine.ws.cc.cmu.edu (root@NINE.WS.CC.CMU.EDU [128.2.74.74]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA00143 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 14:07:04 -0800 Received: (alex@localhost) by nine.ws.cc.cmu.edu (8.6.9/19.6) id RAA14406; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 17:06:23 -0500 From: Alex Wetmore Message-Id: <199501032206.RAA14406@nine.org> Subject: Re: Recommended sound card for 1.1.5.1 To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 17:06:22 -0500 (EST) Cc: aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <11842.789169996@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 3, 95 01:53:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 942 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Why do they suck so bad? All the Pro is going to get you is the > rather dubious stereo it achieves by wiring the electronic equivalent > of two SB VE's to the same board! The sound isn't going to be > necessarily better, since it's the same sound source, just doubled. Well, on my machine (486sx/25, 16 megs, SB 1.5, AHA1542) my audio is really warbly under Windows NT and noticably warbly under WFW 3.11. Just playing back the standard 22khz sounds that Windows uses for beeps is pretty terrible. On another machine in the house (386dx/33, 8 megs, SB Pro, IDE, WFW) the beeps sound a lot better. I was just figuring that it was a result of the drivers talking to the card over an 8-bit bus (original SB is 8bit ISA, Pro is 16bit ISA) and Windows not keeping up with the SB interrupts telling it to get more data to the card. It should be able to keep up though... With the NetBSD and FreeBSD drivers the card works fine. alex