Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:41:40 -0700 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: Nicholas Wieland <nicholas_wieland@yahoo.it> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Audigy 2, Inspire and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20041024234140.GC6513@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <20041024114111.GA70657@pixie.subbacultcha.home> References: <20041024114111.GA70657@pixie.subbacultcha.home>
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--jousvV0MzM2p6OtC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 01:41:11PM +0200, Nicholas Wieland wrote: >=20 > Hi all. > I'm a FreeBSD user from abuot two years now, and I love it. > I have a machine in my home network that I use as a "multimedia > station" - i.e. something that my family can use to listen to music or > watch a DVD without specific knowledge. > I'm very happy with it, and my family too, so thanks to the FreeBSD > hackers for such a piece of software ! > Now, I'd really like to try the official emu10k1 driver for my Audigy > 2 (now I'm using http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/audigy/), but firstly I thought the emu10k1 is only used up to the audigy 1 and they were using a completely new chip for the audigy 2. Is this not true? > I'd like to ask if there's something like the emuctrl tool that ships > with the unofficial driver. > The "problem" is that I have an Inspire system - 6 speakers + 1 > subwoofer - and I don't know how to control the volume of every single > speaker. I believe freebsd uses a nearly identical api to the oss drivers on linux which means that a mixer has a limited number of controls, about 20 I think, and each control has a specific name so a device that has 4 generic line ins can use line1, line2, line3, but may be forced to call the 4th one aux because only three of the controls are named line. In Linux, I know some drivers use multiple mixer (ugh) if they need more controls. Also, I think the dsp devices are also limited to two channels so linux's emu10k1 uses /dev/dsp0, /dev/dsp1, /dev/dsp2 for 5.1 surround sound on the audigy. Is all this true on freebsd as well? Now the alsa drivers for linux get rid of all these restrictions and provide a much better api using a standard library instead of raw ioctl(). Is there any work for something similar on FreeBSD? >=20 > Does FreeBSD support a beast like mine ? >=20 <snip> >=20 >=20 > TIA, > ngw > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >=20 >=20 > !DSPAM:417b97b9179771584873486! >=20 --=20 I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C =20 --jousvV0MzM2p6OtC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBfD20+vN6RuSjKAwRAmSkAJ485ARLfmXx3PGDRqubDn3xggMJyACfdSHQ RdDH/g81qQIjELUvoFyth8o= =Ltlt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jousvV0MzM2p6OtC--
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