Date: 31 May 1999 20:17:18 +0200 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sound card? Message-ID: <7iujne$jh2$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
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I'm considering adding a sound card to my FreeBSD/i386 box. Now, I know
roughly zilch about sound cards. There are absurd numbers of different
models, with similar names, almost identical technical data, different
chipsets, product lifetimes of a few months at most, and varying support
throughout the operating system world.
For example, opening up the latest leaflet from a local computer chain
store, I see:
Soundblaster 16 PnP Value ISA, Vibra 16XV
Soundblaster PCI 64V PCI, Ensoniq
Soundblaster 16 PCI PCI, Ensoniq 1373
Soundblaster PCI 128 PCI, Creative 5507
Soundblaster Live! Value PCI, EMU 10K1
Soundblaster Live! PCI, EMU 10K1
The latter two are a bit expensive.
Looking at /sys/i386/isa/{snd/CARDS,sound/Readme.cards}, it appears that
of all these only the "SoundBlaster 16 PnP Value" is supported. In fact,
there seem to be no supported PCI sound cards at all!?
Can anybody recommend an inexpensive, not too trashy sound card, that is
supported under FreeBSD and still available on the market? (I'm asking
for a lot, ain't I?)
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
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