From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 15:32:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sys32.hou.wt.net (sys32.hou.wt.net [205.230.159.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F3537BC42 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:32:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from FBob@wt.net) Received: from desk1 (216-119-134-91.ipset14.wt.net [216.119.134.91]) by sys32.hou.wt.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA10887; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:32:46 -0600 (CST) From: BobF Organization: Very Little To: Doug Barton Subject: Re: soundblaster live Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:28:38 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <437.000313@ru.ru> <00031217053006.00427@desk1> <38CC266D.98E5716A@gorean.org> In-Reply-To: <38CC266D.98E5716A@gorean.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00031217311407.00427@desk1> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > BobF wrote: > > > > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > freebsd wrote: > > > > > > > > HI I am Ref from Russia. > > > > Could you, please, help me with pci card SoundBlaster Live!? > > > > > > Unfortunately there is no support for this card right now. SB refuses > > > to release the specs, so it's proven very difficult to write a driver > > > for it. > > > > Uh- I dunno............ > > Have a look at http://opensource.creative.com/ > > That's a linux driver, written by SB. The people who are working on > porting/creating a freebsd driver have found it very difficult to do so > BECAUSE SB WON'T RELEASE THE SPECS. I own one of these cards, and I've > been following this topic closely. Hmmm... Just another reason I went to SuSE for my workstation. Not to mention SMP support, UDMA66, etc, etc. But then what good is a sound card on a server? -- Bob F EMail FBob@wt.net A Truly Wise Man Never Plays Leapfrog With A Unicorn... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message