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Subject: Re: Envy24 under FreeBSD
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On Thursday 01 March 2007 18:36, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28. February 2007 23:22, Konstantin Dimitrov wrote:
> > tell me, which envy24-based card you have or planning to buy and i
> > will give you info is it supported and how hard or easy will be to add
> > support for that card.
>
> Not meaning to hijack the conversation, but I have (and have had for years
> now) a Terratec DMX 6fire card which I would definitely like to finally see
> supported natively (I even bought an OSS license for it once, but since I
> happen to maintain some sound related ports, running a third party
> commercial driver really didn't work out too well for me - had to switch
> back to onboard sound for testing every so often).

My experiences with the OSS drivers are pretty bad. Many applications didn't 
work well.

According to snd_envy24(4) Terratec DMX 6fire is already supported.

It's supported only in CURRENT though. But it's not too much trouble getting 
it to work under 6.2.