From: rmast@cs.vu.nl (Mast RN) Subject: Re: sounds ala Sun /dev/audio Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 10:49:43 GMT
TIGGER@msu.edu writes:
>By any chance has someone developed a sound driver for the pc's
>internal speaker. Something along the lines of Sun's /dev/audio
>would be prefered. For that matter, have I missed the boat and
>there is something already there that I'm not seeing?
>
Not yet, and I don't think there will ever be one too, because to emulate 8 bit sound
on the PC-speaker costs too much time for the processor.
It must be, however possible to make a driver for an lpt-dac consisting of 9 resistors
and a capacitor.
If you then only support the 8khz rate of /dev/audio, I think there would be enough
processor-time.
It is only that someone has to program it...
Robert (rmast@cs.vu.nl)
>Thanks!
>Eric Kasten
>tigger@ibm.cl.msu.edu