Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:49:53 -0500 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Brandon Stewart <rostewa2@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sound blaster sound card. Message-ID: <19980126174953.50617@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <34CBF25A.57369BC3@vt.edu>; from Brandon Stewart on Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 02:18:08AM %2B0000 References: <34CBF25A.57369BC3@vt.edu>
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Brandon Stewart: |I have tried making quality sound output on two systems with the sound |blaster compatible sound cards. I use splay and the sound is atrocious. |I force output to mono and its still atrocious, but at least I can make |out what notes are supposed to be played. The sound card is found on the |correct port, IRQ, and DRQ. The exact same result has been found on two |systems, but only with sound blaster compatibles. I'm using an old |(Aztech) packard bell generic piece of ____ that generated decent sound |in windows, my friend is using an AWE 32. We both get the same quality |sound. Incidentally, I plugged a gravis ultrasound into the computer, |compiled that device into the kernel, and it sounds beautiful. The |gravis has only one (ignorable) problem. The first virtual terminal gets |flooded with the error code isa_dmastart:channel 5 busy. If I switch the |kernel config to try a different dma X, then the error would be |isa_dmastart:channel X busy. Any feedback would be appreciated. Don't know what to tell you. I have a SB32 and it records and plays back PCM wonderfully. You're not sampling off /dev/audio are you :-) Randall
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