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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 1997 07:45:43 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        cfortin@ec.camitel.com (Christian Fortin)
Cc:        FREEBSD-MULTIMEDIA@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What is the best sound card for FBSD ?
Message-ID:  <199711210645.HAA27085@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971120205831.cfortin@ec.camitel.com> from "Christian Fortin" at Nov 20, 97 08:47:03 pm

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> I have buyed a sound card "A-OPEN" including chip CS4237 PnP: AW35 Pro
> When my rplayd start, I received this message:
> 
> rplay_audi_get_volume: pcm mixer device not installed.
> 
> What is my problem, I can read in the note "Probably your card use FM
> Synthesizer for change the volume !" But what can I do with this probability ?
> 
> In my card's doc I can read: FM Music Synthesizer: SB base + 0~3 and SB base 8~9
> Also my io address for WSS is 534H. And support DMA 0,1,3
> 
> Other Question: What is the best SB or MSS ? my card support both!

my driver (which you are using) does not (yet) support the synthesis device;
at the moment, your only option to play midi is to use timidity.

this said, mss is certainly better than SB; plus, the cs4237 only
emulates the sbpro. the driver uses the mss side of the board.

	cheers
	luigi



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