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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
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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!
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