From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 10 1:48: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984B337B404 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 01:47:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-63.208.67.229.dial1.chicago1.level3.net ([63.208.67.229] helo=there) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16ZqaR-0007En-00; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 01:47:56 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bob Giesen To: Matt Sykes , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Live! or PCI512 help Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 03:47:54 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020208235042.50634.qmail@web21010.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020208235042.50634.qmail@web21010.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 08 February 2002 05:50 pm, Matt Sykes wrote: > --- Bob Giesen 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