From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 6 22:48:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB1816A417 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:48:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp224.math.arizona.edu (smtp224.math.arizona.edu [128.196.224.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F0B13C467 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:48:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J0P7q-0006EL-JV for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:23:28 -0700 Received: from 71-220-128-214.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.128.214] helo=.domain.actdsltmp) by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1J0P76-0006E2-0Q; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:22:36 -0700 Message-ID: <475875DD.8000506@math.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:21:17 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070916) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kent Stewart References: <200712061322.40986.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200712061322.40986.kstewart@owt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACL-Warn: The HELO/EHLO greeting .domain.actdsltmp is invalid X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:48:34 -0000 Kent Stewart wrote: > I had the sound card in my primary FreeBSD user system go bad on me. > When I went shopping for a replacement sound card for an old system, > the only thing I could see that didn't take too much of my cpu > horsepower was the Audigy SE. It seems to be the generic sound card > that you can purchase in a Best Buy or such electronic store. It isn't > in FreeBSD-6-stable. I think it is the equivalent of the old emu10k1 or > 2. It needs to be addressed. > > A pciconf shows the following > > none1@pci0:17:0: class=0x040100 card=0x100a1102 chip=0x00071102 > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Creative Technology LTD.' > device = 'C6SB0410515017656A Audigy SE' > class = multimedia > subclass = audio > > None of these generic cards seem to have been added for 2 or 3 years. > This specific card was pr-ed a long time ago. We are really running > behind the curve. > > Kent > > It is supported by /usr/ports/audio/oss in full duplex mode. I am using it. It would be really nice to add support for a low end cards like that into the kernel but I am not a developer. I think I saw somewhere that there was something strange about that particular card. OSS for a long time could not support it in full-duplex mode necessary for VoIP. Cheers, Predrag