From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 30 15:19:23 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA15594 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 May 1995 15:19:23 -0700 Received: from cs.pdx.edu (root@cs.pdx.edu [131.252.20.183]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA15574 for ; Tue, 30 May 1995 15:19:22 -0700 Received: from sirius.cs.pdx.edu (root@sirius.cs.pdx.edu [131.252.20.199]) by cs.pdx.edu (8.6.10/CATastrophe-12/23/94-P) with ESMTP id OAA18161; Tue, 30 May 1995 14:57:55 -0700 for Received: from localhost (jrb@localhost.cs.pdx.edu [127.0.0.1]) by sirius.cs.pdx.edu (8.6.10/CATastrophe-9/18/94-C) with ESMTP id OAA10004; Tue, 30 May 1995 14:56:21 -0700 Message-Id: <199505302156.OAA10004@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> To: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vat In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 May 1995 13:40:42 PDT." <199505292040.NAA16540@netcom14.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 14:56:19 -0700 From: James Binkley Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >From his posting: > > > We have a PAS-16 on order (the one card we know of that does > full duplex audio) and hope to work on full-duplex linux audio > support whenever it shows up. That's probably at least a > month away. > >---- >The PAS-16 are problematic and in some motherboards it generates >a horrible noise . The work around is to defined in the linux >sound driver "BROKEN_BUS_CLOCK". They are other quality issues >with the PAS-16. > >They are well aware that the GUSes support dual dma in fact Steve Mcanne >forwards people to me so I can give them the code. Aren't the PAS more or less history at this point? I thought they were hard to get, and weren't necessarily even being built now? Just 2nd-hard scuttlebutt but I would guess that life in the "soundcard" lane on the pcs is a hard way to make money, especially when you are competing with "creative logic" (very creative in the way they (ab)use IRQ 7). :-> Jim Binkley jrb@cs.pdx.edu