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From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: SoundBlaster under UNIX [was Re: doing midi on a Unix box]
Message-ID: <10869@chorus.fr>
Date: 29 May 91 17:39:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: chorus.10869
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In article <283D0BEF.6122@marob.uucp>, fredg@marob.uucp (Fred Goldrich) writes:
%%
%% 	I am running a 486 machine with a SoundBlaster board.  When I boot
%% it up under DOS, the SB works flawlessly.  However, I usually run Interactive
%% UNIX on it -- does anyone know how I can access the SB in that mode?  (And
%% preferably not under VP/ix.)

I have sourced CT-VOICE.DRV and also have the source for
a simpler driver that plays straight 8-bit data (I don't
have the SDK).

As the driver used both interrupts, I/O and DMA, you would
probably need a couple of weeks to create a UNIX device
driver.
-- 
Adam Mirowski,  mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE),  tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX