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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!prism!gt8134b From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Soundblaster Message-ID: <135493@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 1 Feb 94 20:26:49 GMT References: <1994Jan24.042853.3793@sun490.fdu.edu> <2i6a2n$5m1@fw.novatel.ca> <hastyCK9tr8.GC7@netcom.com> <2ik1ba$iqo@fw.novatel.ca> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Lines: 35 hpeyerl@sidney (Herb Peyerl) writes: >Amancio Hasty Jr (hasty@netcom.com) wrote: >: In article <2i6a2n$5m1@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@sidney (Herb Peyerl) writes: >: >and found it to work. My own experience with it was "messy", "buggy", >: >and "kludgey". The advantage that the snd_drv stuff has is that it >: >supports more cards than the one in NetBSD-current. >: You forgot that the snd_drv works across multiple-operation systems. >No; I said "messy". If this is Hannu Savolainen's VoxWare driver, then it also supports /dev/sequencer for the GUS and MPU-401 devices. It supports a uniform playing and recording interface to many different soundcards, providing /dev/audio (SUN-style ADPCM playback, minus some of the ioctls), /dev/dsp for 8 or 16 bit stereo or mono playback and recording, /dev/mixer, /dev/midi, etc. It allows multiple sequencers and soundcards in one machine. I'm working with someone else on the gmod program for playback of 4, 8, or 32 channel .MOD/.669/.MTM/.ULT song files. Currently it only works on the Gravis Ultrasound, but as more soundcards with onboard memory come out, VoxWare can be extended to work with them and gmod will not have to change. All in all, it seems a fairly well thought-out interface, although some of the more advanced features (such as an automatic General Midi patch manager for internal synths such as the GUS) are still being worked on. If snd_drv is not Hannu's driver, then I will quietly butt out. -- _g, '96 --->>>>>>>>>> gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu <<<<<<<<<--- CompSci ,g_ W@@@W__ |-\ ^ | disclaimer: <---> "Bow before ZOD!" __W@@@W W@@@@**~~~' ro|-<ert s/_\ nders | who am I??? ^ from Superman '~~~**@@@@W `*MV' hi,ocie! |-/ad! / \ss!! | ooga ooga!! | II (cool)! `VW*'