Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 17:29:47 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@it.hq.nasa.gov> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5R Vat with SB16? Message-ID: <199607312129.VAA19021@wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jul 1996 14:18:57 -0700" References: <199607312118.OAA02438@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996 14:18:57 -0700 Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote: hasty> Try running on dos to find out what the card is configured for or hasty> read the card's documentation and that a peek at the card. Eeewww, DOS? We ain't got no stinkin' DOS! (seriously, I'll have to hunt-down a DOS-box... Isn't there a way to probe/test this without having DOS around?) hasty> Well, the sound driver's 3.5 on rah have not received a lot of hasty> testing on non-gus cards however if you like feel free to download hasty> ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/snd01041996.tar.gz I'm rebuilding the kernel against it right now. Looks like I didn't need to merge the files.i386 from your sound distribution into the src/sys/i386/config/files.i386 file... hasty> vat uses /dev/audio so you don't need /dev/sb ;additionally, you hasty> can access /dev/audio or /dev/dsp like any sound card on FreeBSD. What's the difference between /dev/audio and /dev/dsp? Should I be able to do a "cat sorrydave.au > /dev/audio" or to /dev/dsp? hasty> With respect to vat , you will have to compile vat in half-duplex mode hasty> because we don't have full duplex dma support for SB thingies. hasty> Basically, if you download vat from: hasty> ee.lbl.gov:/conferencing/vat/alpha/.. hasty> compile vat with the default voxware module you will have a half-duplex hasty> vat. I've already grabbed your vat-and-half from Rah; is this the same as doing what you describe? Many thanks.
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