Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 12:07:59 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will installing a separate sound card work? Message-ID: <20160911120759.6b86aec9@Papi> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB0974245A63E0A5938C14B131C2FD0@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB0974245A63E0A5938C14B131C2FD0@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 17:48:23 +0000 Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In my computer hardware upgrade project (which has already seen me > switch 3 motherboards and 2 CPU's in 1 month), I have reached a point > where I need to invest a bit further. My current Gigabyte GA970 > motherboard is working perfectly, except that the onboard sound > (Realtek) is aweful, with a whole lot of high-pitch hiss accompanying > the sound whenever I try to play any music. > > I would like to solve the problem by installing a separate internal > sound card - the best option appears to be Asus Xonar DG PCI Internal > Sound Card with a C-Media CMI8786 chipset. Will my idea of disabling > the onboard sound and installing the separate card work ? My > motherboard's BIOS does provide the option to disable the onboard > sound. So I think the question simply boils down to whether the > CMI8786 chipset be supported by the FreeBSD kernel. > > Thanks for any help. > Manish Jain > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi Manish; Don't know if my model is EXACTLY like yours. I have a GB 970A-UD3P mobo, running BSD 10-STABLE and the sound is working perfectly. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."help
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