From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Oct 31 7:50:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from kiew.egd.igd.fhg.de (kiew.egd.igd.fhg.de [192.102.170.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A06337B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:50:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from penguin (penguin.egd.igd.fhg.de [192.102.170.145]) by kiew.egd.igd.fhg.de (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA28F3; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:50:04 +0100 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:51:26 +0100 (CET) From: "Thomas Runge" X-Sender: runge@penguin.egd.igd.fhg.de To: Heiko Recktenwald Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 R and newpcm In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: > And there were difficulties with recording with more than 8 bit 8000 Hz. > > Could I upgrade or downgrade the pcm driver ? Well, from FreeBSD 3.x to 4.x they changed the sound drivers from pcm (which worked for me and my Sb16 quite nice) to newpcm. I'm not sure why. But my Sb16 stopped sampling useful data after that. It seems, it's only an ISA problem, but again, I'm not sure. So, you could downgrade to FreeBSD 3.5 :-( or wait for some kind soul fixing it. *sigh* Soundcard drivers and unix.... -- Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message