Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 20:04:45 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound card Message-ID: <199903090204.UAA58188@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> of "Mon, 08 Mar 1999 16:51:47 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903081647340.43830-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Chuck Robey writes: > Can anyone translate from the CARDS list of chips in > /sys/i386/isa/snd/CARDS to at least ONE real sound card that's still > being sold, that I can buy? (recoomendations like a GUS card, that > isn't being sold anymore, fall into the useless category). I researched things too hard and bought an AOpen AW37 not-Pro. Largely because the Crystal Semiconductor parts were highly recommended and I was impressed with the .pdf manuals at the CS site. The chip/card claims an 85 dB signal to noise ratio too. And it just doesn't work under FreeBSD. Its like the DAC is configured in the wrong mode or something. I beat on the driver a bit but never figured it out. Believe there is some initialization code that isn't being done quite the way the CS docs say. The replacement I hacked in didn't fix it either. Of course it works under NT, but that's not what I bought it for. Several months ago was walking thru a 'puter show having only seen a $2 fan worth buying when at one table I saw some cheap sound cards. $14 each. One had a chip recognizable as Yamaha 719F. That was the latest cheap chip I'd heard of on this list that worked well and reliably with Luigi's driver. So I splurged. The Windows utilities on the CDROM require a serial number to enable. No serial number on the box or card works. But the drivers worked. And it works like a charm under FreeBSD too. Certainly doesn't have the S/N ratio of the AOpen card as I have had to turn off my AR Powered Partner speakers when I'm not looking to make FreeBSD noise. Its been a long time since I've booted into NT, but I think the NT driver was doing something to mute the speakers when not in use. This weekend is another one of the travelling salesman computer "shows". I might go and buy some $5 speakers to solve my noisy sound card problem. :-) -- 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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