From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 31 08:00:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13070 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:00:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13060 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:00:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4027.ime.net [209.90.195.37]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id KAA82684; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:58:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19990131105502.038c3a80@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:58:25 -0500 To: shields@msrl.com (Michael Shields) From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: USB drivers Cc: Jason Thorpe , Terry Lambert , dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson), wes@softweyr.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au In-Reply-To: <8790ejy1bi.fsf@mulligatwani.msrl.com> References: <4.1.19990130165432.03d5deb0@genesis.ispace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:17 AM 1/31/99 , Michael Shields wrote: >In article <4.1.19990130165432.03d5deb0@genesis.ispace.com>, >Drew Baxter wrote: >> What's sick is Microsofts new Speaker system, it supports 'digital audio' >> via USB. > >This is actually a good idea, since it moves the D/A converter outside >the noisy PC case. > I don't have any major quibbles with my AWE32 (2mb) sitting inside my computer case. As it goes my Boston Acoustics speakers are a tad overpowering (can shake the floor up above me pretty well :)). But all is fair in music and video games. >> Thing is, not Win95 Compatible, let alone anything else. >> Requires Win98, otherwise it's analog via standard input. > >Well, that part is not a good idea. Well course not :) other problem is I don't see Microsoft willingly giving any parts of the driver source either, so that FreeBSD, etc. can design drivers to support the thing.. Talk about monopoly power though, "Check out our new product that noone else has yet" then "You need Win98 to run it".. Win98 was *EXTREMELY* memory-hole intensive on this thing. 3 or 4 hours down the road and it'd slow down to around 486-66 speed and I'd have to reboot. No thank you. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message