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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:46:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Antoine Beaupre <beaupran@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To:        Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't record hifi audio on with sox on -stable
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010251440150.18271-100000@phobos.IRO.UMontreal.CA>
In-Reply-To: <20001025115807.A10639@curry.mchp.siemens.de>

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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Andre Albsmeier wrote:

> On Tue, 24-Oct-2000 at 23:43:39 -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
[...]
> > Testing are all made with "rec" from the sox (12.16) package. Recording
> > first a simple file (8000 Hz, 8 bits, mono) works correctly. If I switch
> > to 16 bits, the recorded file is just empty (i.e. no sound at all). Trying
> > now 22050 Hz at 8 bits, mono: working correctly.
> 
> 16 bit recording with the AWE is broken in the pcm driver. It even
> announces it correctly that it does only AFMT_U8 but most programs
> ignore that.

Shouldn't the manpage document that? 

Here's a nice little patch:
*** /usr/src/share/man/man4/pcm.4.org   Wed Oct 25 14:43:36 2000
--- /usr/src/share/man/man4/pcm.4       Wed Oct 25 14:44:38 2000
***************
*** 192,197 ****
--- 192,199 ----
  .Sh BUGS
  Some features of your cards (e.g. global volume control) might not
  be supported on all devices.
+ 
+ 16 bits recording is broken for AWE cards.
  .Sh HISTORY
  The
  .Nm

A.

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C'est que l'adage pretend que pour croire,
L'important ne serait que de voir

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