Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 16:16:43 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which sound card now? Message-ID: <199901162216.QAA00896@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> of "Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:57:38 %2B0100." <199901150957.KAA01885@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Moved to -multimedia. Luigi Rizzo writes: > > Eventhough, Voxware was reinstated, I diligently went about finding > > a "Luigi-Approved" sound card. > > > > After weeks of research I came to the conclusion that the > > 'Aopen AW 37 Pro' was the card of choice. > ... > > And I have no idea what modern card will be reasonably well supported > > under pcm0. > > I have had good success recently with Yamaha ISA cards, e.g. YMF715 or > YMF719. When to a "computer show" today. Kept the above in mind. Bought a YMF719 card for a whopping $14 plus 8% sales tax to put my AOpen AW37 our of FreeBSD's misery. Shopped until I found a card with a chip that specifically said, "Yamaha YMF719" on it. Also found new-in-box Kingston 32M 60ns parity 72-pin memory for $30 each. Now I'm stuffed at 128MB! Also used 4MB Matrox Mill II card for $45. Brand was "Axra". CD includes some Windows utilities from Yamaha. One demands a serial number and I can't find a serial number on the package that it likes. It works better than the AW37 not-Pro. But it needs a squelch. Plugged into my AR Powered Partners FreeBSD plays continuous static. Tried the card under NT 4.0 first, which apparently turns the card off when not actually intending to make noise. Don't think this card is up to the audiophile qualities of the AOpen/Crystal Semiconductor card. Other statements about 34dB S/N ratios on some cards bear a new level of truth. Without telling PnP anything special it was detected and appears to work (cat /usr/local/lib/exmh-2.0.2/drip.au > /dev/audio) But I think the dma assignment needs manual attention? Shouldn't it be "dma 1:3" as my AW37 said? This is -current as of 2-jan-99. Probing for PnP devices: CSN 1 Vendor ID: YMH0020 [0x2000a865] Serial 0xffffffff Comp ID: PNPb02f [0x2fb0 d041] mss_attach <Yamaha SA2>1 at 0x530 irq 5 dma 0:1 flags 0x11 setting up yamaha registers set yamaha master volume to max pcm1 (CS423x/Yamaha <Yamaha SA2> sn 0xffffffff) at 0x530-0x537 irq 5 drq 0 flags 0x11 on isa -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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