Re: Sound report

[Stas Sergeev <stssppnn@yahoo.com>]

Hello.

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> I applied Stas's opl1a.diff to 1.1.4.6 and I got sound out of SB
> fmorgan! The sound is quite horrible
There is a note on my page that the code
is in an alpha stage, so the problem reports
should not be sent. You've just violated
that:)

> (tweaking DIRECT_WRITE_FREQ
> in linux_sound.h helps a bit)
Strange that it makes any differences
at all in that case...

> but this is the first time I have
> heard any sound at all from this program in many years.
Unfortunately this will take many years
for that code to became a part of dosemu
(if at all).
There was a person who is willing to
volunteer for that work, in which case
this have some more chances to be ever
finished. I hope he will get to it soon:)

> Also, I can get
> either music or shooting sounds, but not both.
That means that your card or driver
doesn't support multiple sound channels
(hardware mixing). You have to try SB Live.

> Sound Blaster not responding on selected port.
Yep, the same problem.

> Using kernel 2.4.16 + alsa
I've heard somewhere that the Commercial OSS
drivers have a built-in mixing. If this is
true, use these and you'll get everything
you want (the quality of the sound will
still be miserable as the Adlib code is not
finished - requires threading).