From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 09:46:46 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA17364 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 09:46:46 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA17358 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 09:46:44 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA07115; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 12:45:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 12:45:50 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9504121645.AA07115@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Andres Vega Garcia Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: GUS MAX audio card In-Reply-To: <199504121017.MAA01547@pax.inria.fr> References: <199504121017.MAA01547@pax.inria.fr> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Hello, I have seen in some posts that this card is supported, but the > FAQ does not mention anything. Mine doesn't work properly, but I don't know whether that's a bug in the hardware or the software. `vat' definitely doesn't work (in fact, it causes the sound driver to start spewing endless obnoxious messages to the console which should have been uprintf()ed or log()ged). Playing sounds does work, but as I'm sure you know, that has little to do with whether real-time applications work correctly. Unless the state of affairs has changed dramatically while I wasn't looking, the sound driver is currently incapable of providing the precise timing that real-time applications need. This is a bad state of affairs, but I don't have time to worry about it. > Is there any known drawbacks about using this card (for the > audioconferencing tools for exemple)? Well, I was able to compile IVS with audio support, but since nobody sends IVS-format audio around here, I have no way of testing it. I can't generate audio because of the bug I mentioned before. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant