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Date:      Fri, 06 Dec 1996 21:16:18 -0500
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        Denis DeLaRoca 825-4580 (310) <CSP1DWD@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Cc:        dwhite@RESNET.UOREGON.EDU, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GUS PRO: functional! 
Message-ID:  <199612070216.VAA09628@whizzo.transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Dec 1996 14:34:00 PST." <199612062234.OAA14411@freefall.freebsd.org> 
References:  <199612062234.OAA14411@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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> On Fri, 6 Dec 1996 13:54:02 -0800 PST,
>    Doug White <dwhite@GDI.UOREGON.EDU> said:
> >
> > Next is getting FreeBSd working.  Can I apply guspnp6 to the 2.2-ALPHA, or
> > do I have to go all the way to -current?  reason is that if I have to go
> > to current I'm going to buy a new disk...
> 
> I think you can... I was able to apply guspnp5 to my 2.2-SNAP 960801
> system. But for MBONE work I kept having loop problems and all sorts
> of audio distortion so I had to sidegrade to a PAS-16 card until the
> driver is in better shape. Recently, someone reported on the list
> good results with the guspnp6 driver in terms of audio quality but
> he also reported the sound loop problems so I don't know how much
> better things are...

The guspnp6 stuff seems to work better, but it's still dangerous to
interrupt the process while a large write is going on.  That is,
if you do a "cat foo.au > /dev/audio" and kill the process with a
^C  or kill signal from another process, you're almost guaranteed to
be toast.

FYI,

louie






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