Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 08:42:17 -0500 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> To: nathan mace <nmace85@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soundblaster Live! Message-ID: <20011209084216.A1187@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20011208164439.56680.qmail@web20007.mail.yahoo.com>; from nmace85@yahoo.com on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:44:39AM -0800 References: <200112081630.fB8GUmb57296@realtime.exit.com> <20011208164439.56680.qmail@web20007.mail.yahoo.com>
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nathan mace: |--- Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> wrote: |> Bill Moran wrote: |> > nathan mace wrote: |> > > does anyone know if/when the soundblaster live! sound card will be |> > > suported under freebsd? |> > |> > It appears as though it is already supported. | |thanks for the info. but before i asked you guys i did a search on |google. it found a bunch of archived mailing list replies that indicated |that it wasn't working yet. they were dated earlier this year too. You might go back and review those threads in more detail (as they may be relevant to you). It could be you happened onto a thread related to a HW/SW incompatibility involving the SB Live. For example, there there was a really ugly problem with system freezes and hard disk corruption in PCs with MBs having a VIA '686b southbridge and a VIA k[xt]133 northbridge earlier this year. This problem was greatly aggravated by the presence of a SB Live! card, so much so that it often was attributed to the Live! rather than the MB chipset and BIOS. According to Søren Schmidt, the Live isn't blameless as it operates outside of the specs, but the key problem is the MB vendors programmed the VIA chips wrong. Søren's committed fixes to stable and current for this a while back though, so unless you pick up an old version of FreeBSD you shouldn't have to worry. Randall -- Randall Hopper aa8vb@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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