From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 12:41:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA22067 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 12:41:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA22053 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 12:41:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA02903; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 12:40:17 -0800 Message-Id: <199602052040.MAA02903@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: Jerry Kendall cc: FreeBSD Hackers In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 1996 14:58:47 EST." <96Feb5.150803est.20481@janus.border.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 12:40:17 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> Jerry Kendall said: > > > OK all you hackers out there, this is your chance to > boast about how well(or not) something works... > > I am asking the hackers list because my FIRST and FOREMOST OS is FreeBSD. > > > I would like to purchase a sound card for my system... > > Sound Blaster is my preference.... Well, you can always subscribe to : mail majordomo@star-gate.com subscribe multimedia where all the sound/video/conferencing guys hang out. For starters, I would never get a SB . I would get something like a GUS PnP specially for doing audio/video conferencing. Just join the list and we can explain in gory detail if you like. In the game and "demo" arena, the GUS is very , very popular. In FreeBSD the choice of the sound card is not that critical because we have one API. The problem comes in when one wants to take advantage of special features in the sound card . If you do then your application is limited to that sound card. Enjoy, Amancio