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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.
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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