From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 5 12:30:48 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA01622 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:30:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from rzcomm1.rz.tu-bs.de (rzcomm1.rz.tu-bs.de [134.169.9.107]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA01488 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:30:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from algieba.ts.rz.tu-bs.de (ppp334.ts.rz.tu-bs.de) by rzcomm1.rz.tu-bs.de with ESMTP (1.37.109.20/16.2) id AA005217736; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 21:28:56 +0100 Received: from algieba.ts.rz.tu-bs.de (algieba.ts.rz.tu-bs.de [192.169.238.111]) by algieba.ts.rz.tu-bs.de (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00562 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 22:27:39 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <32A73E4B.41C67EA6@algieba.ts.rz.tu-bs.de> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 22:27:39 +0100 From: Sven Brandenburg Reply-To: S.Brandenburg@tu-bs.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: O si o [sound question] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by freefall.freebsd.org id MAA01618 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi.. And now it is time again to present THE LAME QUESTION :) I have configured my soundcard(s), got rplayd running and everything is running fine. Apart from the fact that I cannot *pursue* my box to play 16 bit samples. Why? Playing 8bit,8kHz .au files with rplay or (well..) `cat sample.au > /dev/audio` sounds perfect (As far as 8bit can be perfect) but trying 16 bit samples I get /&%$§"!. Trying to force rplayd to use 16bit I discovered that the sound device is never set to 16 bit. (I recompiled my kernel with some "enhancement": it now reports when the sound device is set to either 8 or 16 bit). Why? I must be missing something obvious and would appreciate any opinion (even a bang on the head). If it helps I would post my configuration. Thanks in advance, Sven -- I will not trust you, I, Nor longer stay in your company. Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray: My legs are longer though, to run away. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night`s Dream, 1596