From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Sep 19 14: 6:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.teliauk.com (mailhub.teliauk.com [195.12.225.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CCD537B424 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1o314.teliauk.com (root@d1o314.teliauk.com [195.12.237.81]) by mailhub.teliauk.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8JLKVA20943; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:20:32 +0100 (BST) Received: from vilnya.demon.co.uk (t4o317p169.teliauk.com [195.12.253.169]) by d1o314.teliauk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21481; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:06:34 +0100 (GMT/BST) Received: from haveblue (haveblue.rings [10.2.4.5]) by vilnya.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id A867BD908; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:06:20 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <008a01c0227d$5e175e20$0504020a@haveblue> From: "Cameron Grant" To: "FUJISHIMA Satsuki" , Cc: References: <39C54B37.A229A4F@sgi.com><39C62553.B79294A7@mitre.org> <86d7i0f992.wl@cheerful.com> Subject: Re: SB16: recording 8 bit ok, 16 bit recording just gives noise Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:05:36 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I suspect newpcm is broken for this card. it seems so; i will investigate soon. > At Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:23:15 -0400, > Andresen,Jason R. wrote: > > These early ISA Soundblaster cards have a bug that prevents you from > > playing and recording at 16 bits. If you are playing a sound, you are > > limited to recording at 8 bits. (1 1/2 duplex card). > > So I believe this is not the case. the sb16 has an 8 bit channel and a 16 bit channel. both can be used for play OR record, but only one in each direction at a time. the driver allocates the 16 bit channel to the first operation, but it seems this is not functioning right. -cg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message