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* [9fans] Audio - how? plus missing audio(7)
@ 2002-02-11  9:54 Joel Salomon
  2002-02-14  9:36 ` [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
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From: Joel Salomon @ 2002-02-11  9:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 PCI that I thought should
work. the command given in the manual bind -a #A /dev gives me a
usage:... error message.  Can I get this card to work, and how.

Secondly, man audio tells me that there should be a page called
audio(7), but it's missing.  The man pages on the web have this page
listed in the index too, but accessing it gets a 404 page not found
message.  Can anyone explain this?

Thanks,
Joel Salomon


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* [9fans] Re: Audio - how? plus missing audio(7)
  2002-02-11  9:54 [9fans] Audio - how? plus missing audio(7) Joel Salomon
@ 2002-02-14  9:36 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
  2002-02-14 17:09   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Douglas A. Gwyn @ 2002-02-14  9:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Joel Salomon wrote:
> I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 PCI that I thought should
> work.

No, Creative uses misleading packaging.  It's only "compatible"
with a genuine SoundBlaster-16 with help from a software emulation,
part of the (Windows) driver, which Plan 9 doesn't provide.


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* [9fans] Re: Audio - how? plus missing audio(7)
  2002-02-14  9:36 ` [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
@ 2002-02-14 17:09   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Bushnell, BSG @ 2002-02-14 17:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> writes:

> Joel Salomon wrote:
> > I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 PCI that I thought should
> > work.
> 
> No, Creative uses misleading packaging.  It's only "compatible"
> with a genuine SoundBlaster-16 with help from a software emulation,
> part of the (Windows) driver, which Plan 9 doesn't provide.

However, Creative has been pretty cooperative with helping make free
software drivers for Linux, so I would expect that it shouldn't be too
hard to write a Plan 9 driver by looking at the Linux one.


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* Re: [9fans] Audio - how? plus missing audio(7)
@ 2002-02-11 15:14 Russ Cox
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From: Russ Cox @ 2002-02-11 15:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

I'm not sure that the SB16 PCI is supported.
I've only ever used ISA cards.  audio(7) is
an internal page, and shouldn't be in the
index.

Russ


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