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 > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > -- Daniel Duris [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
