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Date:      Tue, 12 Dec 1995 22:44:03 -0800
From:      Bruce Cole <bcole@cisco.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        bcole@cisco.com
Subject:   Re: VAT and SoundBlaster... 
Message-ID:  <199512130644.WAA17044@greatdane.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Dec 1995 21:08:10 PST." <199512130508.VAA08556@bcole-ss20.cisco.com> 

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> >    I was expermenting with vat and there was no sound coming through the
> > speakers. I checked the information window and it shows that all packets are
> > being received. I thought at first it was some problem with the /dev files
> > but I created all of them (/dev/pcaudio /dev/audio /dev/snd0 /dev/vatio..).
> > 
> >    Is there anything else that need to be done so that vat can work?
> > 
> >    It's a Sound Blaster 16. It works with normal .au files and xanim..
> 
> There's a little intermediate tool that Amancio Hasty wrote that's
> needed for the VAT to talk to a standard /dev/audio.
> 
> You can find out about it on the multimedia mailing list, or I think
> there is a pointer via www.freebsd.org.

If you wish to go to the pain of compiling vat from source, I have
diffs available which will make it work with /dev/audio directly, without
requiring any intermediate program/special device driver.  (Actually I'm
not sure whether or not the mike works, but listening to audio does).



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