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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!agate!benco From: benco@ucsee.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Ben Cottrell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: What sound cards and file formats does NetBSD/i386 support? Date: 24 Aug 1995 02:09:47 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Society of Electrical Engineers Lines: 23 Message-ID: <41gn1b$bin@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu I'm a NetBSD/mac68k person, and am only now researching moving to the PC world, so please forgive my cluelessness :-) First question: If I cat something to /dev/audio, what file formats can it be in? Are AIFF, AIFC, and .au supported? How about .au files at sampling rates other than 8 KHz? Second question: The HARDWARE file for i386 mentioned that it has a driver for the SoundBlaster. If I'm correct, the original SoundBlaster wasn't very good in terms of bits per frame and sampling rate... does this driver also support cards that use the SoundBlaster interface, but are 16 bit, 44.1 KHz, stereo? I was thinking in particular of the Gravis UltraSound card... Failing that, can I get *any* 16 bit, 44.1 KHz, stereo cards to work with NetBSD/i386? Thanks a lot! -- ____ -Ben Cottrell (home page http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~benco/) \ / Geek 3.0: GCS(M) dpu s:+ a15 C++++ UB++++ P++ L- E+ W++ N++ K+ w-- O++ \/ M+ !V PS++ ?PE Y+ PGP-- t+ 5? X? R tv-- b+++ DI-- D- G+ e h! r% !y+(**)