From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 21:46:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A29C16A492 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:46:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dev@opensound.com) Received: from alnrmhc14.comcast.net (alnrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.225.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF7D543D49 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:45:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@opensound.com) Received: from [192.1.2.21] (c-66-229-53-8.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[66.229.53.8]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20061011214558b1400jd8o5e>; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:45:58 +0000 Message-ID: <452D6615.40200@opensound.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:45:57 -0700 From: Dev Mazumdar Organization: 4Front Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2/AMD64: missing driver for SB Audigy SE / CA0106-DAT 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: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:46:00 -0000 > Dear Sirs. > My FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64 box has been equipted with a PCI Soundblaster > Audigy SE soundcard. This soundcard unfortunately does utilize a chip > called CA0106-DAT as "pciconf -lv" reported. > I tried several snd_xxx driver found in most recent FreeBSD > 6.2-PRE/AMD64 stuff, but even snd_em10k1 doesn't work. So I googled > around and found ports/em10kx and tried this one - also with no success. > As I could then read in the README, my obtained soundcard especially > with the utilized chip isn't supported (yet?). > So I tried OSS, but this driver is a commercial third party driver and > therefore a bit suspicious in my opinion. By the way, the driver only > produces a ear-killing noise - no sound, nothing. > > Well, as I could see in many other forums around the net, the > SoundBlaster Audigy SE is a quite common soundcard and I would wonder if > it isn't supported by FreeBSD. Are there any efforts pointing to this issue? > I should have better read the exclusions on supported hardware, too late > I realized that the soundcard of my box has not an emu em10k1 chipset. > > Any comments are highly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > Oliver > > P.S. Please send eMail direcectly or in CC to my address as I'm not on > this list, thank you very much. Hi Folks, OSS v3.99.4c and OSS v4.0rc2-172 have the Audigy SE problems fixed. Go to http://www.opensound.com/test for the v4.0 drivers. > commercial third party driver and > therefore a bit suspicious in my opinion. So Nvidia closed source driver is not suspicious but 4Front's OSS is?. FYI, we've been in business since 1996 and not 1 complaint about our software being malicious has ever been filed! best regards Dev Mazumdar 4Front Technologies ----------------------------------------------------------- 4Front Technologies 4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F, Culver City, CA 90232, USA. Tel: (310) 202 8530 URL: www.opensound.com Fax: (310) 202 0496 Email: info@opensound.com -----------------------------------------------------------