Thanks for explaining, I can announce success with the drivers
downloaded from link posted. FlightGear has started, it's a bit slow,
but I will just change the details I guess. Now it's time to start
learning how to fly ;-)

Thanks again,

Dan


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:15:01 +0100, Frederic Bouvier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Dan Duris :
> 
> > Yes, actually, I have AC97 on board sound card in notebook, mainborad
> > is SIS 7012.
> >
> > Any idea on how to update drivers. Also if you are programmer, could
> > you tell me how is it possible that such easy thing as sound
> > (comparing to graphics) does not work? I thought that all those
> > Soundblaster Pro, 16 compatibility etc. is a distant past. Now, what's
> > so difficult to run sound on onboard card? What's different when using
> > proper library?
> 
> Modern design no longer use the hardware directly. For sound as well as for
> graphics. Developers use a library that uses a driver that plays with the
> hardware. FlightGear now use a library call OpenAL that brings us 3D 
> positional
> sound and doppler effect to name a few. This is not just like playing a 22khz
> 8bits sample. It involves complex math on multiple channels.
> 
> The library does its share of work and then assumes the driver is able to do 
> the
> rest. And the RealTek driver is notoriously failing to do the right thing 
> until
> recently. People told us they get the last driver available for their
> motherboard with no result. These drivers were released in 2002 and apparently
> far before RealTek managed to fix their software.
> 
> HTH
> -Fred
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