From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue May 18 9: 6:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B85F1572D for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 09:05:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (garatu [158.227.6.222]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA01326; Tue, 18 May 1999 18:03:59 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37418F6F.1268AA60@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 18:03:59 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dept. de Electricidad y Electronica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Palle Girgensohn Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soundcards recommendations? References: <37416F62.C6DAA799@partitur.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Palle Girgensohn wrote: > We a bunch of workstations with the fairly new intel bx-2 motherboard. > It has on-board audio, but it seems documentation on this chipset > (Yamaha...) is not published, and hence there's no driver for any of the > free systems... So, I have to shop some sound cards for these machines. > > I need nothing fancy, and someone presented me with a heap PCI card, > Sonic Impact from Diamond... 'device pcm0' (no extra parameters) doesn't > work, and I seem to remember Diamond having a bad reputation in the open > source community. > > What I need are recommendations on good, cheap sound cards that work > with FreeBSD (or info on how to get the on-board chipset to work :-). > Read /sys/i386/isa/snd/CARDS. If you don't want to play with MIDI, then buy a CS423x-based card. I have the Genius SoundMaker 3DX2, and the AcerOpen AW37. Both are based on the CS4235 and work very well. I have a small set of patches for the CS4235-based cards which improve the functionality of the Luigi's pcm driver. I could send them to you if you want. -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@es.FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message