Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 03:47:54 -0600 From: Bob Giesen <BobGiesen@earthlink.net> To: Matt Sykes <mattmsykes@yahoo.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Live! or PCI512 help Message-ID: <E16ZqaR-0007En-00@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20020208235042.50634.qmail@web21010.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020208235042.50634.qmail@web21010.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Friday 08 February 2002 05:50 pm, Matt Sykes wrote: > --- Bob Giesen <BobGiesen@earthlink.net> wrote: > I have a > SoundBlaster PCI512 -- which, I've read, is essentially > > > the same as a Live! card. I can't get mine to make a sound in > > FBSD. > > (Sings like a canary in m$, so I know it works...) If you're > > familiar with getting either (PCI512 or Live!) card working and > > have > > spotted anything I've missed or screwed up, I'd love to hear from > > you. I have been searching the FBSD site and Googling the web > > (oh, > > I have problems with my SB Live card. > > emu10k isn't working very well in FreeBSD (4.5-stable). > > Check out the problem reports, search for 'emu10k'. I even > followed up on one of them. > > As others have suggested esound works well -- in fact mp3s sound > fairly good with xmms-esound (not great though). > > But wav files are cut off with popping noises, and without esound > wav files are completely hosed. > > I hear -current has some or all of these problems solved though. I tried xmms 1.2.5 with the esound plugin... still, nothing. (The esound that I have installed I just d/l'd from FreeBSD.org - v0.2.23). I tried an mp3 and some wav files. I did find something curious... When I opened the xmms Preferences dialog while running Gnome as a regular user, xmms froze; clicking anywhere in one of its windows caused my PC speaker (the tinny little thing inside the case -- not the ones I _want_ to hear) would beep. My only recourse was to kill xmms. If I opened the Preferences dialog as root, I had no problem. I tried it without running Gnome and I had no problem setting preferences as either a regular user or root. I think I'll post that little bit of info to the gnome-list mailing list. I'm beginning to wonder if there's a conflict or if I'm just missing something -- be it a file or a setting. Does any know that I should be able to make my PC512 work w/ FBSD? (... or am I in uncharted waters?) If so, what minimum files I should have for this to work? Does anyone know how I can make sure that something's not hogging some necessary resource (device or otherwise) when I want to play a sound? Any and all help, suggestions, and comments will be much appreciated. Thanks, again, Bob -- "Diligence is the mother of good luck." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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