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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!news From: gritton@saskatchewan.et.byu.edu (Jamie Gritton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Sound Blaster driver problems Date: 03 Sep 1996 14:52:21 GMT Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA Lines: 15 Message-ID: <50hhf9$ihf@news.et.byu.edu> Reply-To: gritton@byu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: saskatchewan.et.byu.edu I'm having trouble getting the Sound Blaster audio driver to work for me. Using 1.1, it will play sounds OK as long as I open the device, write the waveform, and close it. But if I open, write, wait, and write some more, then later sounds are partially or fully cut off. Also, any attempts to change the playback sampling rate fail. With the current sources, I can at least change the playback rate, bit the sounds still go away after a pause, and always have this "snap-crackle-pop" over them, like the entire wave isn't being written at once. Am I mistaken in thinking that all I need to do is open /dev/sound, set the sampling rate and data format, write the data, and call the drain ioctl? Is this a known problem with the SB driver, or am I just doing something wrong? -- James Gritton - gritton@byu.edu - I disclaim - "