Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 01:01:36 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: shocking@houston.rr.com Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gravis Ultrasound PnP Message-ID: <200009090601.BAA71337@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Stephen Hocking <shocking@houston.rr.com> of "Fri, 08 Sep 2000 23:54:22 CDT." <200009090454.e894sMG19843@bloop.craftncomp.com>
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Stephen Hocking writes: > > I have an AOpen (Crystal Semiconductor based) ISA card that I've been > > meaning to climb under the desk and install. To replace a Yamaha 714 or > > 724 piece of junk that I unplugged the speakers from long time ago. > > > > My junk Yamaha makes more noise thru the speakers than several hard > > drives and fans combinded. > > > > Bought the AOpen AW35 or AW37 (I forget as it seems like it has the > > CSxx37 or CSxx35 part number, switched from the AW number) as oldpcm > > said it was supported and the CS web site had very attractive > > documentation. > > > > My ISA card (the one that was giving me problems) is an AW35/AW37. The Yamaha > seems very quiet. I just cranked the speakers up as load as they'd go & got no > noise. Oh yeah? But I only paid $5 for my Yamaha. :-) Actually I pulled the AW35/37 (the cheap one) as the sound it produced under FreeBSD was badly wrong. As if it were running an ADPCM codec and being fed PCM or something. Spent a fair amount of time admiring the documentaion and trying my hand at hacking things into the driver. There was an init sequence I think was wrong but my work neither improved or hurt anything so I abandonded it. Bought the Yamaha card. It played! It sounded terrible. The AOpen card claimed CS's standard 85db S/N ratio. The Yamaha S/N ratio was about 10db according to my ears. They can't all be as bad as mine else Yamaha would get laughed into oblivion. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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