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To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: Where to buy Advanced Gravis Ultrasound MAX 
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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>>> "Rodney W. Grimes" said:
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Hi, 
 > > 
 > > In the Bay Area, you can buy the Advanced Gravis Ultrasound MAX from
 > > 
 > > Friendly Software Store
 > > 376 El Camino Real
 > > San Carlos, Ca. 94070
 > > Tel: 415-593-8275
 > > 
 > > You have to ask for the full name otherwise they may not be able
 > > to find in their database :(
 > 
 > And I know what database that is :-), Ingram Micro's, you can't
 > find Gravis unless you look under Advanced Gravis, took me a while
 > to find it in there the first time I went looking, the cross index
 > in the front helped, under multimedia-sound cards :-).
 > 
 > > Typically, they don't carry it in the store however they can get it
 > > from their Freemont warehouse in about a day or so.
 > 
 > Fremont, hummm... okay, makes since, Ingram has a major warehouse there,
 > let me see, was the price some place close to $198.00?
 > 
 > > A couple of years ago, I bought my GUS at Fry's so who knows they 
 > > may start carrying it again so it will not hurt to ask them.
 > 
 > Is the Advancded Gravis Ultrasound MAX _THE_ card to have for doing
 > sound under FreeBSD?  If so and the price above is in line I might
 > do some leg work and see if I can start to stock these things.
 > 

Well, I paid $179 with 256k of dram for my GUS MAX when I bought the card
from Friendly Software.

The Advanced Gravis Ultrasound MAX *is* the card for doing sound work
on FreeBSD. The API is included as part of the sound driver.
rah-star.gate.com:/pub/sound.v30.5.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.cs.uwm.edu/pub/FreeBSD/sound.v30.5.tar.gz

To build the sound driver:

cd /sys/i386/isa
mv sound sound.old
tar -xzf sound.v30.5.tar.gz 

Here is my bit on the system config file for the GUS MAX:

controller      snd0
device          gus0    at isa? port 0x220 irq 12 drq 3 flags 1 vector gusintr

drq 3 is the dma for playback
flags 1 is the dma for recording

By far Jim Lowe is the technical guru on the sound driver and GUS.

If you get a chance hook up your GUS MAX to a nice stereo and play
doom or descent --- trust me you will not be disappointed.

	Regards,
	Amancio