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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 1996 20:27:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org, multimedia@rah.star-gate.com
Subject:   vat: no audio output
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960109201935.232B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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Hello people..

Now, I hope you've had lots of fun discussing the origins of multimedia, 
but let's get back to my original question. :-)

I'm trying to establish a transmission between two FreeBSD boxes using
vat, as a test before I have mbone turned on for our subnet.  I can add
the session to sd ok, and it shows up, I can open it, but vat appears to
be having trouble accessing the audio. 

1.  On the two machines, the other will drop out of vat (grey-out).  
Restarting vat brings it back, but only temporary.

2.  I get no audio from the other machine, or from the tests.  I only get 
a little `blip' when I quit out of vat.  Vat's stats show that packets 
are getting sent, however.

3.  I have trouble with vat losing the audio device (it's bottom titlebar 
turns italic), and the microphone's VU meters don't move, except the 
first time I fire it up.  If I open the menu, then the microphone doesn't 
respond in vat.

I'm guessing that vat is having trouble communicating with the audio system.

Running FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE and the following from /dev/sndstat (it's the 
same for both machines, SB AWE32 and an SB32):

VoxWare Sound Driver:3.0-beta-950506 (Sun Feb 5 14:38:12 EST 1995 freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com)
Config options: ffffffff

Installed drivers: 
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 2: SoundBlaster
Type 6: SoundBlaster16
Type 7: SB16 MIDI


Card config: 
SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1
SoundBlaster16 at 0x0 irq 65535 drq 5
SB16 MIDI at 0x330 irq 65535 drq 4294967295
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 irq 65535 drq 4294967295

Audio devices:
0: SoundBlaster 16 4.12

Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3

Midi devices:
0: SoundBlaster 16 Midi

Timers:
0: System Timer

Mixers:
0: SoundBlaster

Running VAT 3.4 `i386' version, sd 1.17.  Retrieved from ee.lbl.gov.

cat file > /dev/audio works OK.  

Hints, solutions, etc. would be very much appreciated.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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