Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 16:49:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Burr <dburr@pobox.com> To: (Christian Weisgerber) <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Sound card? Message-ID: <XFMail.990531164927.dburr@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <7iujne$jh2$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (actually, it was on 31-May-99),
the great prophet Christian Weisgerber once wrote:
> 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?)
Take a look at OSS -- the Open Sound system
http://www.opensound.com/
It is a commercial sound driver that supports many systems, including
FreeBSD. However it is quite inexpensive ($20) and gives you free updates
and techsupport through the year 2003 (now that's what I call service!)
It is extremely easy to configure (in fact, it pretty much auto-configures
itself) and supports a whole host of sound cards, including many PCI
cards. It also supports the "special features" of many sound cards, such
as the Wavetable chips on many modern sound cards.
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