Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:04:41 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, Andy Sparrow <andy@geek4food.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AWE32 Message-ID: <XFMail.000319100441.conrads@home.com> In-Reply-To: <20000317215327.A40008@ipass.net>
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On 18-Mar-00 Randall Hopper wrote: > Andy Sparrow: > > |Yup, I think so. That's what my AWE32 daughterboard used to probe as > |before I put memory in it... > ... > |Unfortunately, I can't use VoxWare (and thus the AWE driver) anymore > |with -CURRENT. > > Why is that? > > Randall Because, once again, they've gone and deprecated the Voxware drivers <sigh>. Frankly, this is very disappointing to me. If you recall, we went through exactly the same thing a good while back with -current (just prior to 2.2.8 or 3.0, I think), and there was such a hew and cry that they put it back in very quickly. Something tells me that's not going to be the case this time. I'm running 4.0-STABLE now, and frankly, I'm not too happy with the newpcm driver(s). I'm getting a lot more chop now playing MP3s on my 166 MHz P5 than I did with Voxware. Bummer. Not to mention *NO MIDI*. I'm sorry, but timidity just plain *sucks* compared to awemidi with a nice wavetable loaded. I may end up just going back to 3.4-STABLE and staying there. I *liked* my awemidi. I *liked* smooth MP3s. I *don't* like this. <sigh> Oh, they've also removed the "pnp" (boottime) kernel config command. While the new PnP detection seems to work pretty well, I'd still like to be able to disable my motherboard audio like I've been doing for a long time. Haven't figured out a way to do this yet. Why must they do this? We went through the whole thing about not removing older functionality until there was a suitable replacement before. This is just nuts, if you ask me. Sign me, Mystified (and a little pissed) -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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