Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 17:06:22 -0500 (EST) From: Alex Wetmore <alex@nine.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Recommended sound card for 1.1.5.1 Message-ID: <199501032206.RAA14406@nine.org> In-Reply-To: <11842.789169996@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 3, 95 01:53:02 pm
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> Why do they suck so bad? All the Pro is going to get you is the > rather dubious stereo it achieves by wiring the electronic equivalent > of two SB VE's to the same board! The sound isn't going to be > necessarily better, since it's the same sound source, just doubled. Well, on my machine (486sx/25, 16 megs, SB 1.5, AHA1542) my audio is really warbly under Windows NT and noticably warbly under WFW 3.11. Just playing back the standard 22khz sounds that Windows uses for beeps is pretty terrible. On another machine in the house (386dx/33, 8 megs, SB Pro, IDE, WFW) the beeps sound a lot better. I was just figuring that it was a result of the drivers talking to the card over an 8-bit bus (original SB is 8bit ISA, Pro is 16bit ISA) and Windows not keeping up with the SB interrupts telling it to get more data to the card. It should be able to keep up though... With the NetBSD and FreeBSD drivers the card works fine. alex
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