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Date: Thu,  8 Jul 2004 18:26:17 -0500
Subject: Re: [9fans] TODO lists for Plan 9
From: vdharani@infernopark.com
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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>> I was under the impression that it was basically soundblaster:
>> what do you want that isn't there at the moment, Matt?
>
> PCI Soundblasters are hens teeth and I've never gotten AC97 to work in
> soundblaster mode
> USB audio doesn't always work

i recently tried with many audio cards/devices but most of my efforts
failed. after carefully going thru the mailing lists, i bought some audio
devices.

- the first one i tried was USB Sound Blaster (MP3+) Go USB device. plan =
9
didnt recognize it. win2k recognized it and was able to play audio throug=
h
it without any additionaly software.

- the second one i tried is Xitel Pro Hifi-Link. plan 9 seemed to
recognize it although not consistently. it complained that it cannot set
the volume (but i could see /dev/audio and /dev/volume, etc). when i trie=
d
to play some audio, i couldnt hear anything. not sure where the problem
is. again, this one worked well with win2k without any additional
software.

- frustrated, i tried with an old soundblaster card (really old full size
ISA card) that i had used it earlier. this one played like
half-music/half-noise. not sure if i should have tried other options but =
i
didnt proceed further.

- next, i used a half size ISA soundblaster card. luckily, i noticed that
the bios(?) displayed the irq and dma channels. i configured accordingly
and it worked fine.

- next, i used another old half size PCI soundblaster (i think it is SB16
PCI) card. this just didnt work. after going thru the details, i realized
that this is ENSONIQ PCI sound card actually (ensoniq was bought by
creative?) that i have had troubles with earlier also.

yes, getting the audio to work in plan 9 is very troublesome.

if someone knows how to get the USB audio working in plan 9, please let m=
e
know.

thanks
dharani