From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 28 14:10:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24700 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24572 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:09:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29869; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:09:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "David W. Chapman Jr." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 128 Bit In-Reply-To: <000b01bde698$2dc2cac0$0300a8c0@dwcjr.poseiden.dyn.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > I am thinking of purchasing a new sound card. A Creative Labs Sound > Blaster 128 particularly, does freebsd support this sound card. I am > running 2.2.7-STABLE, but will upgrade to 3.0-CURRENT if need be. > Thank you The sound driver guru recommends against Creative products until they send us specifications. See if you can find a cheap Crystal- or Yamaha-based card; all of them work very well and are readily detected by the pcm driver. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message