Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 13:58:39 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Orion Hodson <hodson@aciri.org> Cc: George Uhl <uhl@rattler-f.gsfc.nasa.gov>, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: " Fwd: RAT problems with aureal vortex1 soundcard " Message-ID: <3AEEF94F.7594CEF3@mitre.org> References: <200105011724.f41HOle31421@mule.aciri.org>
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Orion Hodson wrote: > > George Uhl writes: > >> > >>RAT version: 4.2.15 > >>Host: Dell Precision 210 > >>OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE > >>Soundcard: Turtle Beach Montego A3D, Vortex1 chipset > >>Driver: A. Matey's Aureal Vortex soundcard driver: > >>http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~matey/au88x0/ > >> > >>Output of cat /dev/sndstat: > >>FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Apr 20 2001 13:54:05 > >>Installed devices: > >>pcm0: <Aureal Vortex 8820> at memory 0xfe100000 irq 19 (4p/1r channels d > >uplex) > >> > >>Description of Problem: > >>A. Matey's Aureal Vortex driver works well with CD, mpeg, real player, > >>etc. With RAT I see the signal displayed on the audio meter but there > >>is no sound. The Audio Category of the configuration options menu > >>shows the audio device as Aureal Vortex 8820, Sampling rate: 8-kHz > >>and Mono Channel. I've cycled through the various audio sources > >>in RAT as well (OGain, Spkr, Pcm, Trebl, Bass, Vol). Nothing works. > > RAT requires the card to support full duplex and for full duplex to > work correctly. I've just moved and don't have the test code I've > used when writing drivers available at the moment for you to be able > to run diagnostics. > > Cards that I know RAT works with on fbsd are: > mss compatible cards > cs4281 > cmi8x38 > sonicvibes (driver not in -stable or 4.3release) > als4000 (ditto - will put on a web page when settled in) > es137x > > Cards that I have been led to believe RAT does not work with: > maestro-1e (will investigate shortly as flatmate has one) > > You might want to try VAT which works in either full-duplex or > half-duplex configurations. I don't think any modern version of VAT support half-duplex communication. Apparently the designers thought that everybody would be using full duplex sound cards by now. Fortunatly VAT will completely refuse to start if you have a half duplex card or driver. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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