sonicvibes
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- /proc/sound, /dev/sndstat
- -------------------------
- /proc/sound and /dev/sndstat is not supported by the
- driver. To find out whether the driver succeeded loading,
- check the kernel log (dmesg).
- ALaw/uLaw sample formats
- ------------------------
- This driver does not support the ALaw/uLaw sample formats.
- ALaw is the default mode when opening a sound device
- using OSS/Free. The reason for the lack of support is
- that the hardware does not support these formats, and adding
- conversion routines to the kernel would lead to very ugly
- code in the presence of the mmap interface to the driver.
- And since xquake uses mmap, mmap is considered important :-)
- and no sane application uses ALaw/uLaw these days anyway.
- In short, playing a Sun .au file as follows:
- cat my_file.au > /dev/dsp
- does not work. Instead, you may use the play script from
- Chris Bagwell's sox-12.14 package (available from the URL
- below) to play many different audio file formats.
- The script automatically determines the audio format
- and does do audio conversions if necessary.
- http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/cbagwell/projects.html
- Blocking vs. nonblocking IO
- ---------------------------
- Unlike OSS/Free this driver honours the O_NONBLOCK file flag
- not only during open, but also during read and write.
- This is an effort to make the sound driver interface more
- regular. Timidity has problems with this; a patch
- is available from http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/linux/pciaudio.html.
- (Timidity patched will also run on OSS/Free).
- MIDI UART
- ---------
- The driver supports a simple MIDI UART interface, with
- no ioctl's supported.
- MIDI synthesizer
- ----------------
- The card both has an OPL compatible FM synthesizer as well as
- a wavetable synthesizer.
- I haven't managed so far to get the OPL synth running.
- Using the wavetable synthesizer requires allocating
- 1-4MB of physically contiguous memory, which isn't possible
- currently on Linux without ugly hacks like the bigphysarea
- patch. Therefore, the driver doesn't support wavetable
- synthesis.
- No support from S3
- ------------------
- I do not get any support from S3. Therefore, the driver
- still has many problems. For example, although the manual
- states that the chip should be able to access the sample
- buffer anywhere in 32bit address space, I haven't managed to
- get it working with buffers above 16M. Therefore, the card
- has the same disadvantages as ISA soundcards.
- Given that the card is also very noisy, and if you haven't
- already bought it, you should strongly opt for one of the
- comparatively priced Ensoniq products.
- Thomas Sailer
- t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch