From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 20 10:41:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA03224 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 10:41:12 -0700 Received: from cs.pdx.edu (root@cs.pdx.edu [131.252.20.183]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA03218 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 10:41:11 -0700 Received: from sirius.cs.pdx.edu (root@sirius.cs.pdx.edu [131.252.20.199]) by cs.pdx.edu (8.6.10/CATastrophe-12/23/94-P) with ESMTP id KAA19318; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 10:40:59 -0700 for Received: from localhost (jrb@localhost.cs.pdx.edu [127.0.0.1]) by sirius.cs.pdx.edu (8.6.10/CATastrophe-9/18/94-C) with ESMTP id KAA18858; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 10:39:42 -0700 for Message-Id: <199504201739.KAA18858@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: note on gus/microphone Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 10:39:39 -0700 From: James Binkley Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a gus card (3.7) and have been recently wondering why the microphone did nothing; e.g., % cat < /dev/audio > out got 0... bytes. Actually, that still doesn't work, but I learned one small painful fact that someone else might find useful. This is the case of the *wrong* mic and the *right* mic. The wrong mic was naturally the 1st one I grabbed. Came with a sound blaster that my wife had at home in her pc. Doesn't work with the gus card. The proof was it didn't work with that nasty old windows "sound recorder" "accessory". The right mike came from radio shack. It works with sound recorder and although I haven't had much time to test it with vat yet, it may work there too. I still don't know the actual hw difference between the two. Maybe pre-amp in one versus none in the other? This suggests that buying a mic at a computer store that is SB compatible if you have a gus may not be the right thing to do. goto radio_shack; regards, Jim Binkley jrb@cs.pdx.edu