Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:30:14 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update of FAQ 69 ? Message-ID: <19990720213014.A20011@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <14177.21888.141388.22686@hip186.ch.intel.com>; from John Reynolds~ on Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 11:29:20AM -0700 References: <14177.21888.141388.22686@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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John, Sorry for the delay in responding: On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 11:29:20AM -0700, John Reynolds~ wrote: > I was wondering if it was time to update FAQ69 w.r.t. the list of sound > cards that are supported? It (http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ69.html#69) states: > > FreeBSD supports the SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, SoundBlaster 16, > Pro Audio Spectrum 16, AdLib and Gravis UltraSound sound cards. There is > also limited support for MPU-401 and compatible MIDI cards. Cards conforming > to the Microsoft Sound System specification are also supported through the > pcm driver. > > I have a Creative Labs PCI128 which *is* supported with the pcm driver mostly > due to it being an Ensoniq chip. I don't know if this falls under the > category of "conforming to the Micro$oft $ound $y$tem spec." or not, but > regardless, it would probably be informative for people investigating > FreeBSD to know what these cards are. One would imagine that most people > wouldn't know if their sound card was MSS compatible (heck, I don't know if > *MY* sound card is ... I just know "it works under Win98"). <snip> > I would be willing to accumulate sound card info for this FAQ (maybe by > sending a request for info onto -hackers and/or -current) if it would > help. Please do. I don't know much about FreeBSD's sound system, so if you can marshal this information together in to a format for the FAQ I'll commit it with thanks. Cheers, N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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