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Subject: Re: What about  Creative SoundBlaster Audigy SE
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On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Tommy Rehn wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a  Creative SoundBlaster Audigy SE soundcard that works fine with
> the Fedora Core 7. But as I want to run FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE instead of
> linux I wonder why we can't use this soundcard in BSD.
>
> Is there an understandable workaround?
>
>  From the         FreeBSD/i386 6.2-RELEASE Hardware Notes
> The snd_emu10k1(4) driver supports the following sound cards:,,
>    *,,      Creative SoundBlaster Live! (EMU10K1 Chipset),
>   *,,      Creative SoundBlaster Audigy (EMU10K2 Chipset),
>   *,,      Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (EMU10K2 Chipset),
>   *,,      Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (EMU10K3 Chipset)
>
> I hope to get a positive answer.
Unfortunately the Audigy SE is not supported. You can try the audio/emu10kx 
port, but last time I tried it wouldn't work either. As far as I know the 
only way to make it work is to install 4Front's OSS drivers from 
www.opensound.com.

Hope this helps,
Pieter de Goeje