From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Jan 25 06:27:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA03877 for multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 06:27:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from netcom11.netcom.com (stanb@netcom11.netcom.com [192.100.81.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA03872 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 06:27:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from stanb@localhost) by netcom11.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id JAA20461; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:27:27 -0500 From: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) Message-Id: <199701251427.JAA20461@netcom11.netcom.com> Subject: Several sound quesions To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org (Free BSD Multimedia List) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:27:27 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk After much pain, I beileive that I finally have my Gravis Ultrasound PnP sound card working in my FreeBSD box. I would like to say thank yuo to all of the helpful people that helped me throught my own ignorance. Most espically Amancio Hasty. Now that I have it working (I thnk). I would like to star using it I have several questions. Ine of my primary reasons fo wanting it was to sund enable Netscape. Having sed this I need to configure the mailcap file for Netscape to ahndle as many diverse types of sound files as I can. Could someone provide me a list of al the sound playing programs that have been proted to FreeBSD, and the file types that they hadle> Does anyone know ehre I can get sox for FreeBSD? Why do I get the folwing error when I run midiplay: Script started on Fri Jan 24 23:28:41 1997 stan@koala.fas.com:/home/stan/sounds $ script$ playmidi *mid$ /dos/ultrasnd/midi/acpiano.pat: No such file or directory Can't load any melodic patches! stan@koala.fas.com:/home/stan/sounds $ Script done on Fri Jan 24 23:28:50 1997 Qhat do I do to fix it? What functiosn of my Gravis are suported? It can apatently do at least teh folowing: play midid sounds, emulate a sound blaster, and work in it's wn native mode. Is this correct? Which of these ae supported? Thanbks for the help. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1997 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.