From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 22:20:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0D6B16A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:20:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail4.speakeasy.net (mail4.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE5143D58 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:20:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from omniBSD@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 19790 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 22:20:31 -0000 Received: from acute.anhedonia.com (HELO [10.20.30.10]) (omni@[66.93.24.213]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Nov 2004 22:20:31 -0000 Message-ID: <41ABA0D2.5080209@speakeasy.net> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:21:06 -0600 From: Ash User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041104 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Nottebrock References: <200411290100.43354.dantavious@comcast.net> <200411291353.10528.dantavious@comcast.net> <20041129184427.GE24413@pir.net> <200411291407.15769.dantavious@comcast.net> <41AB90B2.7000405@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <41AB90B2.7000405@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: Derrick Edwards Subject: Re: Sounblaster Live Card X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:20:32 -0000 Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Derrick Edwards wrote: > >> That sucks because it says on the box "Creative Sound Blaster >> Live! 24-bit". Is there a better way of picking one? > > > The sblive driver oly supports rather early models of SB Live and SB > Audigy cards. Since Creative keeps revising their hardware rather > rapidly, it might not be easy finding hardware that works with the > available drivers. Usually Creative uses the older revisions of their > chips in the budget-products, so I'd start looking there. > > I may not make friends for suggestion this, but the OpenSound drivers have worked nicely for me. I have an older (i.e. natively supported) SB LIVE! card, but was having minor problems with it after upgrading to 5.3. Being short on time, I downloaded the appropriate driver from http://www.opensound.com/. It works nicely, and allows me to use features of the card that I wouldn't be able to utilize with the native snd_emu10k1(4) module. The latest release of OpenSound drivers are free for non-commercial use, with a caveat: Supposedly some sort of message will be played on your card when it's idle. I have no idea what the sound is, as my sound card is never idle thanks to xmms. Good luck, -Ash