From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 3 11:42:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA15254 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 11:42:31 -0700 Received: from plains.nodak.edu (tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA15232; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 11:42:22 -0700 Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by plains.nodak.edu (8.6.11/8.6.10) id NAA11754; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 13:41:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 13:41:33 -0500 From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199504031841.NAA11754@plains.nodak.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Whee - I've got my MBONE feed.. Cc: hasty@netcom.com Content-Length: 1962 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 1. Crank up sound card (SB16), make sure it at least works from the /dev/audio > viewpoint. Don't know of SB16 will *work*, but at least I know I can > deal with audio on a fairly generic level. > > 2. Go on hunting expedition to ftp.ee.lbl.gov and grab wb, sd, vat and nv. > > 3. Bring up sd.. Nothing... Wait.. Ok, here they come! The House and > Senate are both yacking away, there's a couple of general meetings, > Hmmmm. Ah! World Radio something - and it's transmitting! > > 4. Click on World Radio something.. Up comes VAT. Hmmmmm. A bunch of > people down the left hand side.. Listening? Hmmm. I can select them, > there's a radio channel "broadcasting" since I can click shift-left and > see the packets fly in. But nothing on the speaker! No audio! Foo! I think only the GUS card (with Hasty patches) will give you vat output. I am afraid that these changes will not work will with 2.0-0322-SNAP sound file changes, but I have not dug into that to check. > 5. Click on lecture at University of Illinois.. Up comes nv. Information > about grabbers, video transmit bandwidth, blah blah.. No pictures! No > sound! check the IETF conferences, they had video this morning. > 6. Play with about 5 other things, briefly joining a shared whiteboard at > Cisco (only member - went away again), basically a wash-out. Nothing feeps, > flashes or jumps out of my computer except the noise of me softly clicking > on the mouse. > the cisco group has always been idle (at least everytime I popped it open. now we have to write video drivers so we can electronically moon each other. I still have not heard back from Matrox about what kind of information they are willing to provide for drivers. we have loaner intel capture boards (for a DOS conferencing tool) maybe I should start bugging them. we have all the pieces for a FreeBSD "bird of a feather" meetings. --mark.