On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Vincent PENNE wrote:

> Again about the sound problem : I don't know if my question was clear or
> not, but I was talking about producing sound WITHOUT any 16-bits card,
> but with the built-in 8-bits logarythmic ship in the RiscPC. Since the
> beep is working fine with it, why not audio ? I had a look in the kernel
> source, and the code seemed to be there. But still, when I try to use
> it, I got the reply "Can't open /dev/audio" ...
> I just want to know if it is just a matter of recompiling the kernel
> with the good option or is it that the audio part is not finished ?

8 bit audio should be obtainable if the vidcaudio device is configured in
the kernel. There were a few problems with crackling though.
Scott - I cannot remember the outcome of your look at the code. Did you
get 8 bit working cleanly ?

CHeers,
				Mark