Re: Another sound question.

2004-10-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
Björn Lindström wrote: Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yea kind, The sound card still has to convert the pcm data from the CD into music and output it to the speakers though, No, the CD-ROM does that and sends it to the sound card as a plain old analog audio signal, so the only

Re: Another sound question.

2004-10-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
Björn Lindström wrote: Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: now put a music cd into your cd player and type in (as root) "cdcontrol play" if you hear something that sounds like music your good to go Actually, that's a pretty bad test, since that will use your CD-ROM for the sound, ra

Re: Another sound question.

2004-10-20 Thread Björn Lindström
Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now put a music cd into your cd player and type in (as root) > "cdcontrol play" if you hear something that sounds like music your > good to go Actually, that's a pretty bad test, since that will use your CD-ROM for the sound, rather than the DSP of yo

Re: Another sound question.

2004-10-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
Thomas Moyer wrote: I've read the handbook and searched through /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES and found the list of snd_* drivers. I'm just not sure which one I should use. I have an Asus P4P800E-Deluxe. The website says the onboard audio is ALC850 CODEC which is AC' 97 compatible. Does anyone kn

Another sound question.

2004-10-20 Thread Thomas Moyer
I've read the handbook and searched through /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES and found the list of snd_* drivers. I'm just not sure which one I should use. I have an Asus P4P800E-Deluxe. The website says the onboard audio is ALC850 CODEC which is AC' 97 compatible. Does anyone know which snd_* drive