Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 15:35:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: drifter@stratos.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mp3 & SB16 PnP problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980712153054.20474A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <199807122227.SAA05475@somniac.org>
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And can I take this space to say that I used 4fron-tech's stuff for a while. However, it would crash on me in this system when I would play mp3's. Their tech support was horrible as the only thing they could say was "it is hardware fault". I thought only MS could do that. *grin* Actually, I got it working. All I had to do was # cd /dev # rm dsp # ln dsp1 dsp Thanks to everyone who answered. -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." On Sun, 12 Jul 1998 drifter@stratos.net wrote: >In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980711214904.27762A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>; from > Jan B. Koum on Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 09:51:46PM -0700 > >On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 09:51:46PM -0700, Jan B. Koum wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I just compiled 2.2.6-RELEASE with Luigi's pnp code. However, when >> I try to play mp3, I get: >> >> 0wn# ./mpg123 /usr/home/jkb/mp3/*.mp3 >> High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. >> Version 0.59k (1997/07/13). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp. >> Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! >> THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! >> Can't open /dev/dsp! >> 0wn# ls -l dsp >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 4 Jul 11 22:52 dsp -> dsp0 >> 0wn# cat sndstat >> FreeBSD Audio Driver (980215) Jul 11 1998 22:26:05 >> Installed devices: >> pcm1: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1:5 >> sequencer1: <???> at 0x388 (not functional) >> 0wn# >> >> Any ideas? Please cc: me -- I am not on the list currently. >> Thanks, >> >> -- Yan > > May I take this space to recommend a commercial resolution to >your problem? > > http://www.opensound.com > > 4Front-Technologies has a commercial sound driver for a mere >$20 -- well worth it if you want to avoid the pain and agony. You can >download an evaluation copy and test it for a week, before registering >for a license. They support a large number of sound cards, including the >SB16. I just grabbed it off their site a couple days ago and >have been very happy with it. > I spent literally /months/ trying to get sound to >work properly on my FreeBSD system. I tried both VoxWare and Luigi's >PnP sound code, but was only able to get 8 bit sound working most of >the time (and 16 bit working 5% of the time, randomly). > Though others managed to get SB16 working on their systems, >getting my SB16 to work was quite possibly the most frustrating experience. >(Even worse than ppp :). Numerous questions to mailing lists, USENET >groups, sound.doc's, hacking soundcard.h's, etc., etc., ad nauseum. >It took me far and wide looking for an answer, but in the end I found >4Front. Wish I discovered them a long time ago :) > > -Rob > >-- >drifter@stratos.nospam.net (remove nospam to send) > "Am I the only one that cringes every time I hear somebody refer >to a disk drive as a 'solution'? It's bad enough I have to listen to that >marketing hype from vendors, but now it seems to be infiltrating every-day >conversation. I'll decide if that 9GB hard drive is a 'solution' to my >problem or not, thank you very much..." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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