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In-Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
        "Re: Sound and CS4231" (Sep 21,  8:10am)
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>I am wondering, how do you know that it is working in 8 bit and not 16 ?

In 16 bit mode I get a RealAudio popup box saying "Cannot open audio device".
If
I switch the preferences to 8 bit, it works. This is version 3.0 both the
dynamic and static versions.


On Sep 21,  8:10am, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Subject: Re: Sound and CS4231
> > Intel TC430HX motherboards with on-board sound. I'm using Luigi's sound
drivers
> > from 09/08. Playing audio CD's is fine and cat'ing a test au file to
dev/audio
> > works. Using RealAudio only works in 8 bit mode, 16 bit gives a "can't open
> > device error". RealAudio in 8 bit mode is shakey at best and gives me a lot
of
> > errors:
>
> I am wondering, how do you know that it is working in 8 bit and not 16 ?
>
> > Sep 19 12:26:12 psv /kernel: SNDCTL_DSP_SETFRAGMENT 0x0003000c
> > Sep 19 12:26:12 psv /kernel: SNDCTL_DSP_SUBDIVIDE yet unimplemented
> > Sep 19 12:26:12 psv /kernel: dsp write channels 1
> > Sep 19 12:26:12 psv /kernel: dsp reset
> ...
>
> those are just diagnostic messages and I will remove them from the next
> snap.
>
> > The integrated sound info from Intel's specs is :
> >
> > "a Yamaha* OPL3-SA audio CODEC is integrated onto the motherboard. The
OPL3-SA
>
> i'll try to get one such board (with the yamaha board).
>
> >  Am I missing anything in the configuration, or is this on-board sound just
not
> > supported fully yet ? I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
>
> don't know, it seems to work. The messages are ok, you should try to
> use "pcmio" to do some record and playback with various formats.
>
> 	Luigi
> -----------------------------+--------------------------------------
> Luigi Rizzo                  |  Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
> email: luigi@iet.unipi.it    |  Universita' di Pisa
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> fax: +39-50-568522           |  http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/
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>-- End of excerpt from Luigi Rizzo