Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:12:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: multimedia@rah.star-gate.com Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: VAT: The Problems Continue Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960110195429.1947E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hello everybody.
An update on my fight with VAT.
1. Thanks for the pointers with sd and .sd.tcl. You didn't tell me,
however, the format of .sd.tcl :( I poked around in sd_start.tcl and
found out you have to add a "proc start_vat {} {...}" structure around
the line you gave me (I'm no tcl/tk programmer, sorry).
2. I finally got VAT 3.2 to play some audio. But that's it. This is
pretty strange. I have vmix and vat up, with vmix pointed at /dev/dsp0
for record and play. (I figure I can swap back to vmix if I want to change
the input/output mode.)
well, I hit the ``play'' button and no go. So I go playing with the
``record'' and `play' buttons. Well, when I hit record, the output vu on
vat moves! But no audio! So when I hit "play" on vmix, out comes about
one second of transmitted audio. Then I have to clear both boxes, hit
record for a sec, then play again. I get it piecemeal. :) If I hit record
on and off real quick I get about the same amount of audio output when I
go back to play.
3. I tried vat4.0a2 but ld.so dings me for not having a tk4.0 library.
Looks like I need tk4.0, which is on the CD but I didn't install not
knowing how much the other programs would like it. Should I install it
and give it a go?
4. vmix works perfectly with the voxware mixers. And it looks pretty decent
too :)
5. Has anyone asked Creative if duplex audio is even possible on the sb
series? I remember the topic coming up on one of my mailing lists (which
is now defunct), and I don't remember if the Creative rep answered it or
not.
6. Should I keep echoing messages into both multimedia conferences?
Thanks for your help on this.
I'd be willing to serve as a guinea pig for any attempts at getting the sb
better supported. I'm no kernel hacker though, upgrading the sound driver
may be all I can do without good docs and/or getting totally lost :)
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.91.960110195429.1947E-100000>