Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:24:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Steve Jorgensen <steve@khoral.com> To: jose@we.lc.ehu.es (Jose M. Alcaide) Cc: abc@bsdi.com (Alan Clegg), wolpert@methodsystems.com (Edward Wolpert), sean@stat.Duke.EDU (Sean O'Connell), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound card setup: ESS Maestro-2E on fujitsu lifebook e-seris Message-ID: <200008012224.QAA12807@benson> In-Reply-To: <39860039.673ECC9@we.lc.ehu.es> from "Jose M. Alcaide" at Aug 01, 2000 12:39:53 AM
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Jose M. Alcaide wrote
>> Steve Jorgensen wrote:
>> >
>> > > Has anyone gotten the OpenSound driver to *work*? I've tried and with
>> > > simple (short) .wav files, it seems to work relatively well, but attempting
>> > > an MP3 playback or even a long .wav causes random skipping, garble, and
>> > > general uselessness.
>> >
>> > Yes, I own a license. It seems to run mp3's fine with mpg123
>> > on my Dell Inspiron 7500 with a ESS Maestro-2E. It does have
>> > problems doing any kind of sound from the linux emulation system.
>> > If I run vmware with sound enabled, it crashes the machine,
>> > and the linux realplayer 8 has big problems.
>> >
>>
>> Same here, but I need to play MP3s in mono ("mpg123 -m"). Stereo playing
>> of MP3 clips sounds ugly. I read something about this problem in
>> the README.Maestro file which comes with the OSS distribution. It also
>> says that 16-bit stereo playing does not work because of a hardware
>> problem (if this is true, then the Maestro chips are crap).
>>
Actually there is a --8bit option you can specify to mpg123,
though I didn't have to use it. On the other hand, no matter
what, it sounds pretty bad through the laptop internal speakers,
but it's ok when I play it through real speakers attached to the
docking station. I haven't tried using the headphone jack yet.
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