From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 21 02:07:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA29172 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 02:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.ukrv.de (gatekeeper.ukrv.de [193.175.72.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA29164 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 02:07:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gatekeeper.ukrv.de; (5.65/1.1.8.2/17Oct95-0336PM) id AA19883; Wed, 21 May 1997 11:06:43 +0200 Received: from mailhost(193.175.66.33) by gatekeeper.ukrv.de via smap (V1.3-JSC) id sma007943; Wed May 21 11:06:24 1997 Received: from merlin.ukrv.de by mailhost.ukrv.de; (5.65/1.1.8.2/08Mar95-0213PM) id AA09782; Wed, 21 May 1997 11:06:23 +0200 Received: by merlin.ukrv.de (4.1/UKRV-Gen PCG 0.1) id AA01150; Wed, 21 May 97 11:06:22 +0200 From: Udo Wolter Message-Id: <9705210906.AA01150@merlin.ukrv.de> Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Pro 3.2 on FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE In-Reply-To: from Joachim Kuebart at "May 21, 97 10:33:13 am" To: joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Joachim Kuebart) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 11:06:22 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 !!!