Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 14:44:03 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recs for TOSLINK stable/10 PCI audio card Message-ID: <309a4e1f-ca87-edfd-afb9-5fc8fa3ae42f@pinyon.org> In-Reply-To: <483b32aa-943b-dc2a-8a03-bd39a99edf89@ladisch.de> References: <72691544-f4a4-71d1-3aa4-88ee187fecbc@pinyon.org> <746bc8fb-eeba-6510-cfb5-4490f6d76b44@pinyon.org> <483b32aa-943b-dc2a-8a03-bd39a99edf89@ladisch.de>
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On 06/18/16 05:39, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Russell L. Carter wrote: >> So digging through the offerings on newegg, I am not seeing anything >> obvious that provides a TOSLINK connector and is *not* C-Media. > > Some mainboards have a toslink output. Indeed, I'm listening to S/PDIF TOSLINK output on the old mb I'm wanting to replace. It's a Realtek ALC889A: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/high-end-pc-audio,3733-6.html Sounds pretty good fed into a venerable NAD T-163. I also have a xonar dg but I can't tell the difference between the two (ancient ears). This is on linux. Apparently FreeBSD supports the ALC889A, which (also apparently) only comes on motherboards. > >> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/sound/pci/oxygen >> >> Is a clean room (re)implementation really required to avoid the license >> issue? > > Why, did the author refuse when you asked him? I didn't think of that. Doh. Upon evaluating all my options after a pretty thorough review of the situation, I'm going to shuffle some systems around so I can keep the multimedia function on the old mb. Best, Russell > > Regards, > Clemens
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