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Date:      Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:41:06 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net>
Cc:        Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, john sconier <kns@enteract.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sound on laptop Dell Latitude cpi??
Message-ID:  <19990805084106.N62948@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199908041233.HAA56458@freeside.fc.net>; from Jerry Dunham on Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 07:33:32AM -0500
References:  <19990804003832.A91888@hyperhost.net> <199908041233.HAA56458@freeside.fc.net>

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On Wednesday,  4 August 1999 at  7:33:32 -0500, Jerry Dunham wrote:
> Patrick Seal babbled:
>> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:38:32 -0400
>> From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
>> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
>> Cc: john sconier <kns@enteract.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG,
>>         freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
>
>> On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 11:02:02AM +0930i, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>> On Tuesday,  3 August 1999 at 19:59:02 -0400, Patrick Seal wrote:
>>>>
>>>> the pcm driver works for me:
>>>>
>>>> device pcm0 at isa? port? tty irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15
>>>>
>>>> Note that I have a Latitude CPi 266 (the older big screen one)
>>>
>>> That sounds identical to mine.  How's the volume compared with
>>> Microsoft?
>>
>> Oh geez, even with headphones it's not even worth it. I've never tried
>> it with windows, so I don't know if it's just crappy sound or the FreeBSD
>> sound drivers.
>
> Hmmm....  Mine seems plenty loud enough, but I'm currently running NT4.  I
> only have FreeBSD on an older Latitude with no audio.  My guess is that
> you're seeing a software problem, not a hardware problem, but, of course,
> your particular machine could have something going on that's unique to it.

As I mentioned earlier, I have both Microsoft and FreeBSD on my CTi.
I wouldn't call the sound under FreeBSD "crappy", but the level is
*much* below that of Microsoft.  I'd agree that this is probably a
software problem.

Greg
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