From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 18:46:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD61714D9A for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:46:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA28984 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 03:46:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 03:46:39 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199911070246.DAA28984@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is the "sound" sound solution for 3.3R? Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Withrow wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > I've re-tried the OSS stuff and it doesn't work just like it > has never worked. I don't have the archaic cards supported > by the old voxware stuff. PNP doesn't seem to find the PCI-based > Yamaha PCI-XG chips on my MB. Yamaha does not provide programming documentation and specs for their soundcards and chips -- they sell it for _big_ money to other companies. I know this because I happened to ask them for the PCI-XG specs not so long ago... This is also the reason why the OSS driver for the PCI-XG costs extra money ($30, as compared to the "normal" OSS software which is just $20). For the above reason, there is no native support in FreeBSD for the PCI-XG (or in any other open-source OS, for that matter). I'm afraid you have to buy OSS, which is supposed to support it, or buy a soundcard from a vendor who is more open-source- friendly. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message