Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 23:56:38 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@cisco.com> To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended sound card for 1.1.5.1 Message-ID: <199501040756.XAA02154@feta.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com's message of 02 Jan 1995 20:35:37 PST
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> I've read the README and the RELNOTES in the sound directory but since I'm > clueless when it comes to PC sound cards I'm not sure how to parse the > instructions. What is the recommended cheap sound card... all I want to do > is play .au files from the web. Digitizing would be nice. Midi and 16 bit > sound is irelevant. Joystick and Yet Another SCSI Controller is irrelevant. Well, I'm going to be different. I say the GUS (Gravis UltraSound) is the card of choice for both BSD and DOS. It is -not- SB compatible (in hardware), but has the advantage of being the only card that I am aware of that can record and play at the same time (you can configure it to two dma channels) so you can use things like VAT. By the way, I have patches to 2.0 that are available for alpha-testing that use the GUS in this manner (and enable the VAT audio driver). Unfortunately, I don't know if they break non-GUS folks. Paul
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