From: jahoward@iastate.edu (Jim) Subject: A sound driver question and comments Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 02:34:18 GMT
I have been playing around with the sound driver version 1.0b for
Linux. I am running version .99 pl7 (of course) of the kernel, and
was wondering afew things; mainly about the dsp/mod stuff.
I have a Sound Blaster 16, and (yes I know it is not 'supported') when
I go to play a mod file with either str32 or str15, it will play
until the end of the buffer (dsp.... I set it to 65536 in the kernel).
After it plays the 64k of data, the program hangs. It doesn't lock
up, I can easily break out of it. I am nearly 100% sure that it is
the buffer. Here is why:
When I type str32 -s 11 something.mod it works fine (hokey sounding stereo)
When I type str32 something.mod it plays until nearly position 1
When I type str32 -s 22 something.mod it plays until after position 1
When I type str32 -S -s 22 something.mod it plays fine (mono 22khz)
and so on. The amount of data sampled seems to fit the buffer.
Also, when using srec, it only records 65535 bytes (or is it 65536) and
then stops (buffer size again).
I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this, or if the master
of the sound driver (very nice work) could enlighten me.
The card is detected at boot as a SB-Pro.
FM works great as does all the midi stuff. cp something.au /dev/audio
also works wonderfully.
Any help from anyone (Mom included) would be appreciated.
"Linux--the choice of a GNU generation" -- I love it!
Jim
-- *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* jahoward@iastate.edu ISU EE/IEEE =-=-=-= LINUX -- Have you converted from SCO today? =-=-=-= ======================== One of the 'Help Room Guys' ==========================