From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rodolfo Brasnarof" Subject: Re: Soundmodem && SBLive! Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:24:39 -0300 Sender: linux-hams-owner@localhost Message-ID: <3E9C6A87.22232.37320@localhost> References: <3E9A1E49.14409.BE2D@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <200304140816.37438.rdmartinml@infinito.it> Content-description: Mail message body List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: rdmartinml@infinito.it Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org --- On 14 Apr 2003 at 8:16, Giuseppe Martino wrote: > Il Monday 14 April 2003 07:34, Rodolfo Brasnarof ha scritto: > > So, try the user-space one, which should work with ANY > > soundcard supported by OSS. Is your card working with OSS? > > Yes, It is. > > > Then it should work with the user-space soundmodem. > > But Is soundmodem kernel-space no longer mantained? I don't know, but the user-space soundmodem is easier to configure, more flexible, and works with virtually any soundcard supported by the kernel. The kernel soundmodem only works with soundblaster or windows sound system compatible cards. Those include SoundBlaster, SBPro, SB16, AWE32, AWE64, and many compatibles, for example those with Crystal chipsets (I have one with this chip and made it work with the kernel module, in both SB and WSS mode). Those are mainly isa cards. Sound Blaster PCI cards (like mine PCI128) don't work with this, and perhaps no pci card would work. This is a restriction the other soundmodem doesn't have (and an important one if your card is not supported). Other thing is flexibility. When you configure the user soundmodem, for example in afsk modulation, you can choose the tones you want to use. This is not posible with the kernes soundmodem. A friend and I are using 2400bps afsk with custom tones (we choosed the tones which worked best). Other thing is that when I tried the kernel soundmodem, I had problems unloading the module (the module gives a segmentation fault). And finaly, there's the mixer. You can use the usual mixer to change audio levels. I use aumix in command line mode from within a script, but you can use what you like. One bad thing is that if you want to use the configuration utility you need X. But you can take a sample configuration file and edit it yourself.