From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 23 13:21:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15346 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:21:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15307 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:20:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA08396; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:20:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:20:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kwang-Soo Kim cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: YAMAHA WAVETBLE sound card In-Reply-To: <34C75FF6.F676C544@cs.unc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Kwang-Soo Kim wrote: > Yes, you seem to be right. > I also checked another FreeBSD machine which has AWE32 sound card with > the same kernel. It clearly says supporting "SoundBlaster 16" not the > "SoundBlaster Pro": > > sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa > sb0: > sbxvi0 at 0x0 drq 5 on isa > sbxvi0: > sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa > Yup, I have one of those cards. Very nice. > It's hard to believe that the new 300MHz motherboard has an 8-bit sound > card on it. Thus I thought it's a matter of driver problem. One word: cheap. The chips that drive these (the Crystal CS4231) are really inexpensive and do full-duplex audio. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major