Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:12:07 -0500 From: Kaarthik Sivakumar <kaarthik@comcast.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound blaster live and onboard sound Message-ID: <200401031312.07960.kaarthik@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <3FF6DF17.1060504@nerim.net> References: <200401030258.19558.kaarthik@comcast.net> <3FF6DF17.1060504@nerim.net>
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On Sat January 3 2004 10:26 am, Claude Buisson wrote: > Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote: > > Hi > > > > [...] > > Your card is a Dell-specific SoundBlaster Live! CT0200. Note: > > none3@pci1:6:0: class=3D0x040100 card=3D0x10031102 chip=3D0x00061102 > > ^^^^^^^^ > instead of 00021102 > > > vendor =3D 'Creative Labs' > > device =3D 'emu10k1x Soundblaster Live! 5.1' > > ^^^^^^^^ > > > class =3D multimedia > > subclass =3D audio > > > > > > none4@pci1:6:1: class=3D0x098000 card=3D0x10031102 chip=3D0x70041102 > > ^^^^^^^^ > instead of 70021102 > > > vendor =3D 'Creative Labs' > > device =3D 'SBLive! Value Gameport' > > ^^^^^ > > > class =3D input device > > which is NOT an emu10k1. Dell says it has a "software accelerated" DSP, > needing a special driver =E0 la Winmodem... I have never heard of such a thing until now. I thought that SB Live! would= be=20 the same everywhere and got it. So if I were to get a SB Live! from a store= ,=20 is there anything specific I have to look out for on the shrink-wrap to=20 distinguish the hardware and software accelerated stuff? The regular SB Liv= e!=20 claims the emu10k1 chip as does this. Or does the 'x' after emu10k1 make th= e=20 difference? > > The only known (to me) working driver for this card is the non free OSS > driver from 4Front. I tried it, but found it simpler to buy a real Sound > Blaster Live! Yeah, I think I will stick to getting a real SBLive! myself. Until then I a= m=20 going to experiment with the onboard sound to see how that works. Thanks kaarthik
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