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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sound support Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 19:38:18 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 16 Message-ID: <31254DAA.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> References: <31244273.41C67EA6@visual.is.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: adam mitchell <adamm@visual.is.net> adam mitchell wrote: > I'm thinking about throwing a Sound Blaster into my FreeBSD box. What > kind of applications currently support sound? Can I receive those > college stations that broad/multicast over the Internet? That would > be enough justification for me! Yes, you can, though if you want to use VAT with your sound blaster card you'll have to use something called `vat-and-a-half' designed for half-duplex cards like the sound blaster (as opposed to full-duplex cards like the Gravis or Audiotrix). See the multimedia archives at: ftp://rah.star-gate.com/ -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project