Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:19:53 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: C Gray <frankfenderbender@council124.org> Subject: Re: a rant about soundcards and its endless dead-time Message-ID: <20180211101953.f172f246fe0a8d19fd0e15b6@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <EF6F136C-3442-4633-8BBB-ED031973915E@council124.org> References: <EF6F136C-3442-4633-8BBB-ED031973915E@council124.org>
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:07:28 -0800
C Gray <frankfenderbender@council124.org> wrote:
> So, I ordered the Creative Sound Blaster Live! SB0060:
<snip>
> • Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! PCI Sound Card
> • General Features:
> • Interface: PCI
Note PCI not PCIe or PCI-X but PCI an older bus standard. I
strongly suspect that when that card was designed neither PCIe nor PCI-X
existed.
> My search will never find anything, esp. given that the search engine war
> went to a company hell-bent on refusing the world use to its own history,
> knowledge, and tools: "Creative Sound Blaster Audigy" AND ("EMU10K2" OR
> "CA0100" OR "CA0101") AND "PCM" AND "MIDI" AND ("PCIe x4" OR "PCIe x8" OR
> "PCI-X")
>
> I was sent the following:
> Cards do NOT fit and run in any slot if the slots and card inserts are
> kept in the "need to know" zone.
>
> False advertising and planned obsolescence run the industry.
I see no false advertising - it clearly states PCI not PCIe or
PCI-X.
> That isn't why I got my ASCST and BSCS degrees in the late 1980s.
>
> I have standardized slots for in my Dell PowerEdge T300 server as follows:
> slot 1: 3.3-V, full-length PCIe x4 with x8 connector
> slot 2: 3.3-V, full-length PCIe x4
> slot 3: 3.3-V, full-length PCIe x8
> slot 4: 3.3-V, full-length PCIe x8
> slot 5: 3.3-V, full-length PCI-X
Yep no PCI slots so why did you buy a PCI card ?
> The FreeBSD list needs to actually be based in less of a Venn-diagram
FreeBSD will happily drive that card if you run it on a machine
with a PCI slot.
--
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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