From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 18 1:42:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mhs (mhs.swan.ac.uk [137.44.1.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF6515410 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 01:42:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from G.S.J.Howell@swansea.ac.uk) Received: from www-compsci.swan.ac.uk by mhs with SMTP-LOCAL (XT-PP) with ESMTP; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:42:22 +0000 Received: from Swansea.ac.uk (cscall [137.44.2.58]) by www-compsci.swan.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26808; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:44:54 GMT (envelope-from G.S.J.Howell@Swansea.ac.uk) Message-ID: <36F0CA81.F3992986@Swansea.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:42:25 +0000 From: G X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en To: Nocturne Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creative "Sound Blaster Live" compatability? References: <36EFC959.839ACA90@Swansea.ac.uk> <36F089A1.205FC954@uswest.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nocturne wrote: > There is currently no support for the Live. I seem to recall someone > mentioning that Creative Labs was working on drivers for Linux. I > also seem to recall that same someone saying they use the PCI128 > card. www.freebsd.org has been inaccessible for the past hour or so > I can't check the mail archives for you. If you want to look for > yourself, search the -questions archive for Creative Labs and/or > PCI128. The message was quite recent. ah, here we go.... On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Joseph T. Lee wrote: > > > > Personally, I use the Live! in Windows, and the PCI128 (read Ensoniq > > AudioPCI) in FreeBSD. > > so this is two seperate cards, right? Not one card in two modes, or something? and then "Joseph T. Lee" wrote: > > An interesting thing about the SBLive is it's SB16 emu driver. It > > works independently from the 'doze drivers in DOS. I've used in dos > > mode for tracking and opencp without a hitch. Even my legacy dos > > games work with it. > > > > Would it even be possible to write an emu driver along with a mod on > > the sb/sbmidi/sbxvi source? This is the bit which is making me think that its one card, ie the Live. But even if the emu driver got written, I suspect it wouldn't help me to get access to the digital i/o, which is what I really want. Anyway, back to my original mail... > >I'd like to be able to transfer audio data from my Sony MiniDisc > >Recorder via the (optical) digital outputs direct to the computer. I'd > > I've never heard of an optical output for audio hardware. Was the > "optical" in reference to the nature of the media? Are you possibly > referring to SPDIF or I2S? errr... Not sure about SPDIF or I2S. All I can tell you is that it is fairly common on current digital audio hardware (ie DAT, MD, CDRW, etc.) to have a digital output, which is generally either coax or optical, and the two are not compatible (although I read recently in a uk magazine called 'What Hi-Fi' about a converter that can be had for about 50 ukp). Sorry to be vague about this. I just checked the Sony site [http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/consumer/md/spec_mds_je320.html] and it quotes the output as being "optical digital output." As I said before, I'm open to other recommendations, so if any of you guys out there know how I can do it, let me know. Its looking like I'm going to have to ask the Windows guy to do it for me, and I know how much you'd all hate that. ;o) > >Please cc replies directly to my email, as I'm not subbed to the list. > > To: you and CC: questions. errr... ok. :o) Thanks and regards G. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message