From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 16: 3:53 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 16:03:51 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h011.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F07137B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:03:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 7415 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2001 16:03:45 -0800 Received: from dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com (HELO zoso) (216.227.91.85) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.217) with SMTP; 5 Jan 2001 16:03:45 -0800 X-Sent: 6 Jan 2001 00:03:45 GMT From: "Otter" To: "Wire, William" , Subject: RE: Supported Sound Cards Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:08:56 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <079B626B05A0D3118B1000508B0EA5E906A07150@emss04m05.ems.lmco.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of }Wire, William }Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 2:10 PM }To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: Supported Sound Cards } } } }Hello, } } I am looking to purchase a good sound card for a new }system that will be running FreeBSD. To find out what cards }were supported, I looked in section 14.2 of the handbook on }your web site but most of those cards appear to be older. }Some are not even available for online purchase on the }manufacturers web site. } } I was looking at the Sound blaster AWE 128 PCI card, }but it's not available from Creative Labs any more. They }have a newer card, the PCI 512 and I was wondering if }perhaps this section of the handbook was out of date and }this card is supported. If not, can you make a }recommendation for a high quality, but trouble-free card for }a multimedia system? } }Thanks for your time and input, } } Bill Wire } Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications } Bill, what version of freebsd do you run? there were some major driver changes (newpcm rewritten) from 3.x to 4.x. if you're on the 4.x branch, check out: man pcm, man sbc, and man gusc for a good start. there are several cards out there that work. the choice is yours. just about anything by soundblaster should work. some other brands do also. i'm kind of partial to the awe64 or the sb live, though some may disagree. go read up on the driver man pages and see what you come up with. -Otter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message