freebsd sound card performance vs. linux

2002-06-20 Thread Tyler Spivey
ok - i've noticed (on an awe64, p200 W/ 128 mb of ram), that recording a sound at 44100 hz stareo: rec -r 44100 -c 2 file.wav takes up all my cpu, but under linux, it barely takes up any. freebsd creates a lot of stuttering/clipping because it's taking up all the CPU recording. is this an audio

sbc audio driver - buffering

2002-06-15 Thread Tyler Spivey
how would i go about changing the sbc audio driver so it acts like linux's oss drivers?: when i use sox to play a file under linux, i can hit ^c at any time and it stops, bang. under freebsd, i hit ^c and it waits for a while. this is probably because of buffering under freebsd, but i do want

signals and applications

2002-06-09 Thread tyler spivey
ok - I hope I can get an answer: how come (under linux) i can use my favourite web browser and hit ^c (interrupt) and it will interrupt any network application, but under FreeBSD there are some operations that can't be interupted and just wait there? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

a hopefully simple question

2002-06-08 Thread tyler spivey
Sorry if I'm asking on the wrong list, but would someone please write a simple program to do something like: beep 200 300 which would make a 200 hz tone for 300 ms? or at least tell me where to look for the information i need? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe