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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:59:45 +0100
From:      "Oskar Liljeblad" <osk@hem.passagen.se>
To:        "Mariusz Potocki" <potok@friko.onet.pl>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sbmidi0 not found
Message-ID:  <01bcf66c$93d45bc0$0100a8c0@oskar>

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>You have SB Pro sound card. M$ Windows doesn't care about it, but FBSD do.

Doesn't Soundblaster Pro cards produce 8-bit sound only? My card is called
Vibra 16, The dealer said it was a SB16 with radio built-in (for some
reason,
I don't believe him.) It has been fully compatible with a SB16 Value
(I recently switched cards). After the change, no settings needed to be
changed in any applications (DOS/Windows), games, whatsoever.

>Try: cat /dev/sndstat | more

The 16-bit dsp device (SoundBlaster16) works fine. Here's my /dev/sndstat if
it matters:

---
VoxWare Sound Driver:3.0-beta-950506 (Sun Feb 5 14:38:12 EST 1995
freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com)
Config options: ffffffff

Installed drivers:
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 2: SoundBlaster
Type 6: SoundBlaster16
Type 7: SB16 MIDI

Card config:
SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1
SoundBlaster16 at 0x0 irq 65535 drq 7
(SB16 MIDI at 0x330 irq 65535 drq 4294967295)
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 irq 65535 drq 4294967295

Audio devices:
0: SoundBlaster 16 4.13

Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3

Midi devices:

Timers:
0: System Timer

Mixers:
0: SoundBlaster
---

What's the difference between the synth and midi device anyway?
(Since SB16 cards have no external midi contact.)

>So, if you for example want to use playmidi, you have to use playmidi -f
instead

>Mariusz

Oskar Liljeblad (osk@hem.passagen.se)





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