From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 15:21:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8B737B5E2 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:21:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA74086; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:21:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38CC266D.98E5716A@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:21:17 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0312a i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BobF Cc: freebsd , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soundblaster live References: <437.000313@ru.ru> <38CC1D79.CE348989@gorean.org> <00031217053006.00427@desk1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG BobF wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > > freebsd wrote: > > > > > > HI I am Ref from Russia. > > > Could you, please, help me with pci card SoundBlaster Live!? > > > > Unfortunately there is no support for this card right now. SB refuses > > to release the specs, so it's proven very difficult to write a driver > > for it. > > Uh- I dunno............ > Have a look at http://opensource.creative.com/ That's a linux driver, written by SB. The people who are working on porting/creating a freebsd driver have found it very difficult to do so BECAUSE SB WON'T RELEASE THE SPECS. I own one of these cards, and I've been following this topic closely. Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message