Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 11:06:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: Udo Wolter <uwp@ukrv.de> To: joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Joachim Kuebart) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Pro 3.2 on FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <9705210906.AA01150@merlin.ukrv.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970521103759.joki@jocki.domestic.de> from Joachim Kuebart at "May 21, 97 10:33:13 am"
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> I4m having a problem with my SoundBlaster Pro 3.2 on my FreeBSD 2.2 and FreeBSD > 2.2.2 boxes. They just create noise that sounds like a threat to my stereo. > > I have a friend who has a SoundBlaster 16 PnP and it works beautifully. That4s > why I know it4s not the programs I4m using (Audio MPEG Playe, amp). > > Is there an easy way to find out where the problem lies? I also have these problems with SB Pro cards. Even though the ads tell you that it's a 16 bit sound card: it isn't. It's still 8bit, you can't play full 16bit 44kHz stereo files on it directly. I noticed it when I tried to play mpeg-audio files. They always gave me crap at the speakers. When I'm changing them to 22kHz WAV/Voc files everything is ok. By the way: there is an easy way to find out if your device is an 8bit or 16bit device: start the voxware daemon (au) execute auinfo -audio tcp/localhost:8000 and you'll see... A SB16 is a TRUE 16bit card so there's no problem playing 16bit 44kHz stereo files on it. Bye, Udo -- Udo Wolter, email: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de !!! LOW-TECH Page: http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~uwp/low-tech.html !!!
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