Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 12:28:16 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: "Danny J. Mitzel" <mitzel@Ipsilon.COM>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: does anyone get ``good'' audio quality with VAT and SoundBlaster? Message-ID: <199603072028.MAA14593@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Mar 1996 10:18:14 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960307101238.4801A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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I naturally recommend dumping the AWE32 for the purposes of audio conferencing. The deal with most of this soundcards with respect to install them on FreeBSD is to be able to properly configure the cards so they don't get on their way. I would look at the jumper settings or sofware configuration for the AWE 32 and at the GUS PnP and configure them accordingly. I sure hope for the sake of the Creative Lab fans that Creative labs comes out with a suitable dual dma and clock synchronized soundcard. As for me , I first started out with a SB , SB16 and then PAS16 before settling down with the GUS cards. Amancio >>> Doug White said: > On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Danny J. Mitzel wrote: > > > I spent a bit of time setting up a local FreeBSD machine this week to > > try and tune into the IETF broadcasts, but have been very disappointed > > with the audio quality. I expected a lot of ``popping'' which I've read > > others complaining about with VAT and SoundBlaster, but there were many > > long periods of time where audio was too garbled to distinguish. > > That is the SB. I have an SB AWE32 and it does the same thing. > Apparently the SB can't hold up a constant sample rate, and it fluctuates > too wildly for vat to keep up. If it gets too nasty, try opening the vat > menu or doing something to stop the audio stream briefly; that seems to > reset it and it should sound OK for a bit. > > What's the status on the new SB driver? > > And does anyone think that a GUS could coexist with my AWE32? I like my > AWE so much I don't want to give it up, but I want vat to sound halfway > decent. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >
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