From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Aug 1 15:24:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from charon.khoral.com (charon.khoral.com [209.75.155.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CBF837BE52 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@khoral.com) Received: from zen.alb.khoral.com by charon.khoral.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 1 Aug 2000 22:24:27 UT Received: from benson (benson.alb.khoral.com [10.1.2.11]) by zen.alb.khoral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA20306; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:24:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Steve Jorgensen Message-Id: <200008012224.QAA12807@benson> Subject: Re: Sound card setup: ESS Maestro-2E on fujitsu lifebook e-seris To: jose@we.lc.ehu.es (Jose M. Alcaide) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:24:16 -0600 (MDT) Cc: abc@bsdi.com (Alan Clegg), wolpert@methodsystems.com (Edward Wolpert), sean@stat.Duke.EDU (Sean O'Connell), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <39860039.673ECC9@we.lc.ehu.es> from "Jose M. Alcaide" at Aug 01, 2000 12:39:53 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@spukhaus.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Research Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6200 Uptown Blvd, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message