Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:02:13 -0600
From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>
To: martin.kraft@fal.de
Cc: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ES1373/1373 driver now committed to -stable {was: icecast on 3.3-STABLE
Message-ID: <383B00D5.A0449698@thebarn.com>
References: <199911232044.VAA03838@hpcs14.dv.fal.de>
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Martin Kraft wrote: > Roger Hardiman wrote: > > > > Well Kim, your dream has come true. > > I committed Russells patch for ES1371/1373 to -STABLE yesterday. > > This means FreeBSD now supports the later revision > > Ensoniq and SoundBlaster PCI 16/64/128 cards (in theory) > > Fine. I'm using it since several weeks. > > But I think, it is not yet totally finished: > > On oct. 25, I wrote (to this list and to Russel): > > * Unfortunatedly I encountered another problem: I wasn't able to change > * the LINE input's VOLUME. I modified the line volume using DAP's > * X Mixer. FreeBSD's mixer reported the changed values, but input > * volume did not change effectively. Sorry about this... it has been on my list of things to look at. I haven't had a chance to drop the card into a 3.3 machine lately. guess I should scavenge some parts and put together another machine. > > > I cvsup'd 3.3-stable last weekend, including the 1371 stuff. Recompiled > my kernel and repeated the test. No improvement. > > In fact, I was not able to record this cd from our concert by means of > the PCI128 and had to use an old SB 16. So this is a strong problem for > me, because I bought the PCI128 for its better A/D converter. What motherboard/chip set are you using? I found some chatter on the ALS mailing list about none intel chip set motherboards not working with the new PCI128s. > > > I also would like to report another observation: Playing music via > line out, connected to my active speakers, there are some bad sound > effects at very loud parts of the music. I can not give the exact > technical expression for the effect, but it seems to be a kind of > dynamic limit of the system. (Even with mixer vol 40 and low speaker vol.) Does it sort of sound like cracking in the high ranges? I have heard some clipping in the high end. Unfortunately from reviews I have found the 1371 doesn't perform as well as the 1370. Note: I tried the OSS driver just as a test to see if the sound was any different... I couldn't find any differences. > > > I can hear the same music with the same speakers and the previously > mentioned SB 16 card without these problems. > > Is anybody out there, reading this list, who observed the same problem? > > Martin Kraft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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