Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 14:37:51 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@it.hq.nasa.gov> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5R Vat with SB16? Message-ID: <199607312137.OAA02606@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jul 1996 17:29:47 EDT." <199607312129.VAA19021@wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov>
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>From The Desk Of Chris Shenton : > On Wed, 31 Jul 1996 14:18:57 -0700 > Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote: > > hasty> Try running on dos to find out what the card is configured for or > hasty> read the card's documentation and that a peek at the card. > > Eeewww, DOS? We ain't got no stinkin' DOS! (seriously, I'll have to > hunt-down a DOS-box... Isn't there a way to probe/test this without > having DOS around?) Then just read the docs for the card thats probably the surest way of finding out what you have . And maybe someone who knows the SB16 cards could step in . > hasty> Well, the sound driver's 3.5 on rah have not received a lot of > hasty> testing on non-gus cards however if you like feel free to download > hasty> ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/snd01041996.tar.gz > > I'm rebuilding the kernel against it right now. Looks like I didn't > need to merge the files.i386 from your sound distribution into the > src/sys/i386/config/files.i386 file... > > > hasty> vat uses /dev/audio so you don't need /dev/sb ;additionally, you > hasty> can access /dev/audio or /dev/dsp like any sound card on FreeBSD. > > What's the difference between /dev/audio and /dev/dsp? Should I be > able to do a "cat sorrydave.au > /dev/audio" or to /dev/dsp? /dev/audio is a mu-law device and /dev/dsp is an unsigned audio device. if you cat foo.au >/dev/dsp you will hear garbage. > > hasty> With respect to vat , you will have to compile vat in half-duplex mode > hasty> because we don't have full duplex dma support for SB thingies. > hasty> Basically, if you download vat from: > hasty> ee.lbl.gov:/conferencing/vat/alpha/.. > hasty> compile vat with the default voxware module you will have a half-duple x > hasty> vat. > > I've already grabbed your vat-and-half from Rah; is this the same as > doing what you describe? > Pretty much the same except that vat-and-half is probably and older version than the one you grabbed. I just haven't bother upgrading vat-and-half. Have fun, Amancio
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