From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 01:51:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F76816A420 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 01:51:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu (c-213-160-32-54.customer.ggaweb.ch [213.160.32.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC53343D45 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 01:51:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5112E020; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 03:51:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (atlantis.intranet [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05704-03; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 03:51:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.0.0.17] (mini.intranet [10.0.0.17]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984632E01B; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 03:51:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4345D4A9.2010602@datacomm.ch> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 03:51:37 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Murphy References: <4345A1F2.8080908@calarts.edu> In-Reply-To: <4345A1F2.8080908@calarts.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig578F74A66A50577139F392D4" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at atlantis.intranet Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Audigy Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 01:51:44 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig578F74A66A50577139F392D4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sean Murphy wrote: > I have an onboard soundcard for my FreeBSD box and I was thinking of > getting the new Audigy card. Does the FreeBSD drivers for the Audigy > take advantage of surround sound, EAX, digital connections, or number of > channels? Or does the soundcard operate at a more basic level ie. stereo > sound no hardware acceleration etc. It'll be supported in stereo mode only. There is an alternative driver called emu10kx which supports the other channels and digital outs. I'm not aware of any FreeBSD software that'd know how to make use of things like EAX, so not having that supported by the driver won't be a big loss :) > Is there any reason to have such a high end soundcard in a FreeBSD system? Feature-wise, no. The audigy does give you better sound quality (eg, less noise) than cheapo cards though. Cheers Benjamin --------------enig578F74A66A50577139F392D4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDRdStgShs4qbRdeQRAsJGAJkBBPG1s4m6l2V8dSdflSJoVsD1kQCgkI7L p07GeFWT8mBkZ6uDp/7HVs8= =3Hmf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig578F74A66A50577139F392D4--