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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sound I/O Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 23:13:22 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3175DD82.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <31752472.2781@ASG.unb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Peter Howlett <Peter.Howlett@ASG.unb.ca> Peter Howlett wrote: > I am under the impression that FreeBSD 2.1 does not include > full-duplex sound drivers, and that to emulate this, one creates Oh, it does, it just only does so for full-duplex sound *cards*! :-) The GUS and PAS cards work full-duplex, Sound Blaster cards like yours are incapable of full-duplex operation so you can only use them in one direction at a time. For the MBONE folks, there's a version of vat called vat-and-a-half which is available (from, I think, rah.stargate.com) to deal with this. Other packages, like Speak Freely, have a HALF_DUPLEX compile-time option. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project