From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Sep 19 14:36:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-002.telepath.com [216.14.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D98F137B424 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 24177 invoked by uid 100); 19 Sep 2000 21:35:49 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14791.56373.875282.202982@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:35:49 -0500 (CDT) To: FUJISHIMA Satsuki Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SB16: recording 8 bit ok, 16 bit recording just gives noise In-Reply-To: <86d7i0f992.wl@cheerful.com> References: <39C54B37.A229A4F@sgi.com> <39C62553.B79294A7@mitre.org> <86d7i0f992.wl@cheerful.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FUJISHIMA Satsuki writes: > At Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:52:39 +0200, > Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: > > Playing sounds and recording 8 bit sounds works ok. If I try to record > > 16 bit sounds, I just get noise. Does anybody know this behaviour? > Same here. My Sound Blaster AWE64 just makes noise for 16bit recording > or panics sometimes. Of course this card records correctly under other > OS, i.e. FreeBSD 2.2.8, 3.5, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Windows 98. FreeBSD 3.5 using the snd driver, or the pcm driver? > I suspect newpcm is broken for this card. Well, I've tried three different cards trying to find one that newpcm will record on correctly. An ISA SB, an Ensonic AudioPCI and a Trident 4DWave. The pcm man page says they are all supported, with no mention of any problems. Only one of them can be used to record things usably, and even that drops ~200K of data at regular intervals, creating very noticable dropouts. So I agree with you.