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- Lines: 158
- Date:
Sun Jun 30 11:43:42 1996
- Orig file:
v2.0.0/linux/drivers/sound/Readme
- Orig date:
Fri Apr 12 15:52:02 1996
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.0.0/linux/drivers/sound/Readme linux/drivers/sound/Readme
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-Version 3.5.2 release notes
---------------------------------
+USS Lite version 3.5.4 release notes
+------------------------------------
Most up to date information about this driver is available from
-http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/voxware.
-
+http://www.4front-tech.com/usslite or http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/voxware
+(european mirror).
@@ -12,18 +12,20 @@
date but still very useful. Information about bug fixes and such things
is available from the web page (see below).
-New Programmer's Guide is currently under work (Feb/March 96). Please
-check http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/voxware for more info.
+New Programmer's Guide is currently under work (June/July 96). Please
+check http://www.4front-tech.com/pguide for more info.
====================================================
- THIS VERSION ____REQUIRES____ Linux 1.3.70 OR LATER.
====================================================
It's very likely that this driver version is incompatible with
-Linux versions later than 2.x.
+Linux versions later than 2.0.x.
Packages "snd-util-3.5.tar.gz" and "snd-data-0.1.tar.Z"
-contain useful utilities to be used with this driver.
+contain usefull utilities to be used with this driver.
+See http://www.4front-tech.com/usslite/getting.html for
+download instructions.
If you are looking for the installation instructions, please
look at Readme.linux.
@@ -33,14 +35,14 @@
See Readme.cards.
-Please check http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/voxware if you don't find
+Please check http://www.4front-tech.com/usslite if you don't find
your soundcard there.
Contributors
------------
This driver contains code by several contributors. In addition several other
-persons have given useful suggestions. The following is a list of major
+persons have given usefull suggestions. The following is a list of major
contributors. (I could have forgotten some names.)
Craig Metz 1/2 of the PAS16 Mixer and PCM support
@@ -53,9 +55,9 @@
Jim Lowe,
Amancio Hasty Jr FreeBSD/NetBSD port
Anders Baekgaard Bughunting and valuable suggestions.
- Joerg Schubert SB16 DSP support.
+ Joerg Schubert SB16 DSP support (initial version).
Andrew Robinson Improvements to the GUS driver
- Megens SA MIDI recording for SB and SB Pro.
+ Megens SA MIDI recording for SB and SB Pro (initial version).
Mikael Nordqvist Linear volume support for GUS and
nonblocking /dev/sequencer.
Ian Hartas SVR4.2 port
@@ -63,16 +65,18 @@
Risto Kankkunen Major contributions to the mixer support
of GUS v3.7.
Hunyue Yau Mixer support for SG NX Pro.
- Marc Hoffman PSS support.
- Rainer Vranken Initialization for Jazz16 (ProSonic, MV3D, SM Wave).
+ Marc Hoffman PSS support (initial version).
+ Rainer Vranken Initialization for Jazz16 (initial version).
Peter Trattler Initial version of loadable module support for Linux.
- JRA Gibson 16 bit mode for Jazz16
- Davor Jadrijevic MAD16 support
- Gregor Hoffleit Mozart support
+ JRA Gibson 16 bit mode for Jazz16 (initial version)
+ Davor Jadrijevic MAD16 support (initial version)
+ Gregor Hoffleit Mozart support (initial version)
Riccardo Facchetti Audio Excel DSP 16 (aedsp16) support
James Hightower Spotting a tiny but important bug in CS423x support.
+
+ Please look at lowlevel/README for more contributors.
-There are probably many other names missing. If you have sent me some
+There are propably many other names missing. If you have sent me some
patches and your name is not in the above list, please inform me.
Sponsors etc.
@@ -84,7 +88,7 @@
Novell, Inc. UnixWare personal edition + SDK
The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. A SCO OpenServer + SDK
Ensoniq Corp, a SoundScape card and extensive amount of assistance
-MediaTriX Peripherals Inc, a AudioTriX Pro card + SDK
+MediaTrix Peripherals Inc, a AudioTrix Pro card + SDK
Acer, Inc. a pair of AcerMagic S23 cards.
In addition the following companies have provided me sufficient amount
@@ -99,6 +103,8 @@
Integrated Circuit Systems Inc.
OAK Technology
OPTi
+Turtle Beach
+miro
Ad Lib Inc. ($$)
Music Quest Inc. ($$)
Creative Labs ($$$)
@@ -107,7 +113,7 @@
=========================
Read the sound HOWTO (sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/...?).
-Also look at the home page (http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/voxware). It may
+Also look at the home page (http://www.4front-tech.com/usslite). It may
contain info about some recent bug fixes.
It's likely that you have some problems when trying to use the sound driver
@@ -119,7 +125,7 @@
at /var/adm/messages for more verbose error message.
-In general the easiest way to diagnose problems is to do "cat /dev/sndstat".
+In general the easiest way to diagnoze problems is to do "cat /dev/sndstat".
If you get an error message, there are some problems with the driver setup:
@@ -127,7 +133,7 @@
the sound driver are missing. Use the script at the end of
linux/drivers/sound/Readme.linux to create them.
- - "No such device" shows that the sound driver is not in the kernel.
+ - "No such device" telss that the sound driver is not in the kernel.
You have to reconfigure and recompile the kernel to have the sound
driver. Compiling the driver doesn't help alone. You have to boot
with the newly compiled one before the driver becomes active.
@@ -142,7 +148,7 @@
this particular device. For example /dev/audio and /dev/dsp will not
work if "digitized voice support" was not enabled during "make config".
- - "Device or resource busy". Probably the IRQ (or DMA) channel
+ - "Device or resource busy". Propably the IRQ (or DMA) channel
required by the soundcard is in use by some other device/driver.
- "I/O error". Almost certainly (99%) it's an IRQ or DMA conflict.
@@ -161,8 +167,8 @@
Hannu
Hannu Savolainen
-hannu@voxware.pp.fi
-(Please check http:/personal.eunet.fi/pp/voxware before mailing me).
+hannu@voxware.pp.fi, hannu@4front-tech.com
+(Please check http://www.4front-tech.com/usslite before mailing me).
Snail mail: Hannu Savolainen
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