From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 17 11:34:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA07539 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 11:34:49 -0800 Received: from goof.com (root@goof.com [198.82.204.15]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA07529 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 11:34:45 -0800 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA00454 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:34:42 -0500 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199503171934.OAA00454@goof.com> Subject: Re: Sound Card recomendations? To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:34:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199503171837.LAA08440@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Mar 17, 95 11:37:24 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1754 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams wrote: > > > With all the talk about the sound-cards and stuff, I've decided to > > > plunge into the 90's and buy a sound card when I'm down in the Bay Area > > > at Frys. What do folks recommend in the < $200 range for sound-cards? > > > My machine doesn't run DOS so the biggest feature is that it works under > > > FreeBSD with all of the software available. However, I might steal the > > > card out of it occasionally if/when I get another system to run games, > > > so I don't want a no-name care either. > > > > As far as I know there is one and only one real card to have for sound > > under FreeBSD, and that is the GUS. It should be <$149.00. Hmm. > Looking around on the WWW, there are a couple different models of the > GUS just like there are many types of SoundBlasters. > Which version? Do all of them work under FreeBSD? Is one more > 'special' than the others cause it can emulate Barney sounds better than > others? Enquiring minds want to know! :-) I've got the GUS MAX - which with the kernel supped last night isn't working properly - midi seems to be ok - but playing samples is impossible at this point in time - see my post to {hackers,current} if you want more details. I like the card a lot though... it's one of the best cards I've ever used - admittedly though, I've just used the soundblaster, soundblaster pro, pro audio spectrum 16, GUS, and the JAZZ cards that gateway sells... -matt -- Matthew C. Mead -> Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research - -> Multiple Platform System and Network Administration Work Related -> mmead@ctr.vt.edu | mmead@goof.com <- All Other ---- ------- WWW -> http://www.goof.com/~mmead --- -----