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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:57:39 +0100
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        cshenton@uucom.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.2R pcm/sbc AWE records noise, not audio: 16 bit bug?; gus broken?
Message-ID:  <20010119155739.A9580@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
In-Reply-To: <lflms8ob1y.fsf_-_@Samizdat.uucom.com>; from cshenton@uucom.com on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 03:33:13PM -0500
References:  <20010117131850.A3402@cs.mcgill.ca> <3A670CA9.EEC14186@bowtie.nl> <lflms8ob1y.fsf_-_@Samizdat.uucom.com>

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On Thu, 18-Jan-2001 at 15:33:13 -0500, cshenton@uucom.com wrote:

> ...
> 
> Some searching in the list archives turned up this gotcha from
> October 2000 about AWE 16-bit recording not working:
> 
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=553505+555911+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-stable/20001029.freebsd-stable
> 
>     Shouldn't the manpage document that?  
> 
>     Here's a nice little patch:
>     *** /usr/src/share/man/man4/pcm.4.org   Wed Oct 25 14:43:36 2000
>     --- /usr/src/share/man/man4/pcm.4       Wed Oct 25 14:44:38 2000
>     ***************
>     *** 192,197 ****
>     --- 192,199 ----
>       .Sh BUGS
>       Some features of your cards (e.g. global volume control) might not
>       be supported on all devices.
>     + 
>     + 16 bits recording is broken for AWE cards.
> 
> So AWE is broken? The hardware or the drivers?

Same here. It must be the driver since it worked with FreeBSD-3.x :-)

Maybe the new sb stuff in -current is better...

	-Andre


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