On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:05:16PM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 07:52:20PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > if you want surround sound, check cmpci(4), uaudio(4), auvia(4) (though, > > recording is broken on 8233 based devices) or maybe azalia(4). and > > definitely upgrade to 4.3 when it's released (or run -current, especially > > if you want to do fun stuff with audio ;). > > You know, the problem is, that: > > 1. I've got exactly an Audigy, which I wouldn't to replace with other, just > because it gives quite good sound quality, and it has firewire on-board > (didn't made use of this until now, but perhaps one day...).
probably not with OpenBSD. at least, the firewire support that was once there is long gone. the Audigy cards are ok. I really can't tell a difference between them and cmcpi(4), but then again, but maybe my ears just aren't that sensitive. > 2. It's not the question of surround sound; pay attention, that it would be > very comfortable to have both outputs activated, just because there's no > need to manually switch from headphones to speakers (or back), when you want > to listen something "on private". Just to change mixer setting could be > enough in such case, and both speakers and headphones can be connected all > the time. ;) this is exactly what I was trying to get working. copy front to surround, but let them be separately controllable. it seems, you still have to touch the channel stuff, but maybe I was missing something. this is usually a function of the codec rather than the controller, at least on most other AC97 devices. > 3. I'm asking about this, because I'm wondering, how difficult could be to > port softphone application to OpenBSD - I'm considering two: linphone and > tclphone. It's very likely, that the latter would be much easier. And > exactly when using softphones having a possibility to mute one output and > activate the second one (and the opposite, when talk is finished) is very > comfortable solution. please use 4.3 or -current. there were full-duplex issues, especially in osaudio(3) in 4.2 and before. pjsua is in ports/telephony. if you can use portaudio v19, that's a bonus, because there is a port/package for that in 4.3. > Yes, perhaps I must complete my (very narrow at the moment) knowledge about > soundcards and soundcard-drivers, and then to make a try to activate that > second output. good luck :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
