From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 21 20:43:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA21608 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:43:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iconmail.bellatlantic.net (iconmail.bellatlantic.net [199.173.162.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA21595; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:43:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmm125@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client201-122-21.bellatlantic.net [151.201.122.21]) by iconmail.bellatlantic.net (IConNet Sendmail) with ESMTP id VAA02702; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:55:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <362E585B.8314E1F7@bellatlantic.net> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:55:40 +0000 From: Donn Miller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel M. Eischen" CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ESS 1868 References: <199810212251.RAA20205@iworks.interworks.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Daniel M. Eischen wrote: > > Anybody tried the pcm driver with the ESS 1868 sound card? The sound > > only comes out of the left channel. Both speakers are working, but with > > the Luigi sound code, sound only comes out of the left speaker. With > > the voxware driver, both speakers work. Maybe a problem with full/half > > duplex? > > The voxware driver works fine for the ESS1868 in my laptop, but with > the PCM driver, I get a horrendous feedback sound and it doesn't > work well at all. I haven't had a chance to pick through the > code and see what the differences are between PCM and Voxware > ESS1868 support. > > DE I just tried it, and I get lots of distortion with real-video files (they STILL don't have RealPlayer 5.0 for FreeBSD yet). But simple stuff plays well, like cat sound.au > /dev/audio ## comes out left channel only. Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message