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From: Igor Pokrovsky <ip@doom.homeunix.org>
To: Tejas Kokje <kokje@ISI.EDU>
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Subject: Re: poor sound quality in 5.3 stable
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:07:03AM -0800, Tejas Kokje wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 stable. I got my sound
> blaster live 5.1 sound card working with FreeBSD by adding
> 
> device sound
> device emu10k1
> 
> in the kernel configuration file. However the quality of
> sound produced is of poor quality (not very clear) as compared to that
> produced under Linux 2.6 series kernel.
> 
> I remember having similar quality sound when OSS was used
> with Linux Kernel. Is this poor quality because of OSS ?
> Is ALSA ported to FreeBSD ? Or am I just using wrong driver ?

I'm using latest OSS from opensound.org and the sound quality is perfect.

-ip

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