From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Feb 2 8: 5: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6094D37B69D for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 08:04:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22986 invoked by uid 100); 2 Feb 2001 16:04:44 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14970.55964.411855.5622@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:04:44 -0600 (CST) To: Christopher Masto Cc: Cameron Grant , Andre Albsmeier , cshenton@uucom.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2R pcm/sbc AWE records noise, not audio: 16 bit bug?; gus broken? In-Reply-To: <20010202103500.A3028@netmonger.net> References: <20010117131850.A3402@cs.mcgill.ca> <3A670CA9.EEC14186@bowtie.nl> <20010119155739.A9580@curry.mchp.siemens.de> <20010201142244.A17951@netmonger.net> <003f01c08d12$657a5e60$0504020a@haveblue> <20010202103500.A3028@netmonger.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christopher Masto types: > I have a SoundBlaster AWE64 in my -current machine, which was a very > popular card, and I'm sure there are lots of them around. As far as I > know, apart from the AWE stuff (which I couldn't care less about), it > should look like a SB16. When I first got the thing, in the 2.2 days, > it worked perfectly. Along the way, it stopped working a couple of > times due to PnP issues, but fiddling with the configuration brought > it back. Then I lost the ability to record anything but static, along > with a bunch of other people, and there it has stayed ever since. It's the recording that gets me. I had a similar SB card originally, and it recorded fine under 3.x. With pcm, I get nothing but static. So I bought two different cards (hey, sound cards are cheap) that the pcm man pages lists as supported, the second also recommended by someone on the multimedia list. Neither one can record worth beans. While the pcm stuff has greatly simplified playback issues, it seems like recording is being given short shrift. Personally, I wish old interface hadn't been ripped out until pcm recording was in better shape. However, I wasn't in a position to support it then - and realisticly I'm still not - so it's as much my fault as anyones. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message