Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 00:47:11 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Cc: mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Fortissimo II vs Santa Cruz for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200201161447.g0GElBb18287@dungeon.home>
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Hi! I'm looking to upgrade my sound card, and among the long list of requirements is 1) must sound really nice, and 2) must work with FreeBSD. A surprising requirement (from most people's point of view) is that I want to avoid Creative. Let's just say they annoyed me once. :-) I've read good reviews on both the Hercules Fortissimo II and the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. Most reviews go for the Santa Cruz over the Fortissimo II, but that might not help me much. Where I live, I could buy a Fortissimo II any day I wanted, but have yet to find a single supplier of the Santa Cruz. I'll keep looking though. But enough of all that! I want to know how well these two cards are supported under FreeBSD for basic stereo input and output. The Fortissimo II is powered by a CS4624 chip and the Santa Cruz by a CS4630 chip, and these chips appear in text strings in /sys/dev/sound/pci/csa.c. "Turtle Beach Santa Cruz" is specifically mentioned, and I'm guessing the Fortissimo II will be detected, but I don't know how well the driver works for either of them. The only comments I recall being posted about the CS4630 (and friends) is that "it will work soon", but nothing since that (and that was quite some time ago). I can't find anything recent in the list archives. So, has anybody tried either of these cards with FreeBSD? How do they sound? Do they even work at all? Any problems with 44.1kHz (given that both of them run at 48kHz internally, as far as I know)? Does recording work? And does anybody know where I can buy a Santa Cruz in Australia? Thanks, Stephen. PS I heard a rumour that the VideoLogic SonicFury is the Santa Cruz board in a different box. Does anyone know if this is true? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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