Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:52:11 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: Buying new sound card Message-ID: <200710240252.12104.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <20071023180756.GC3981@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <f0faa2990710211458mcc4decbw109110fa7132e768@mail.gmail.com> <x7ejflaoq9.fsf@nagual.nl> <20071023180756.GC3981@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:29:34PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> writes: > > > On Sunday 21 October 2007, Roberth Sjon=F8y wrote: > > >> Anyone who can confirm that a Creative SB Audigy SE PCI works with > > >> FreeBSD? > > > > > > It doesn't work, unless you install the oss driver from > > > http://www.4front-tech.com > > > > That is not too hard ;-) The OSS drivers do not integrate as well as the native drivers with most=20 multimedia applications. Features like automatic vchannels are missing. Als= o,=20 I found the mmap'ed audio support to be buggy, but this may have changed. > > > > > Note that in my opinion the native FreeBSD drivers are a lot better. > > > > What drivers? The ones that don't exist for the card? Drivers for supported cards ofcourse :) > > > > In my opinion the SB Audigy is a very common card that should have > > been supported long ago. On the other hand, the OSS drivers are very > > good. > > The command 'apropos Audigy' gives: snd_emu10k1(4) > > I quote: > > The snd_emu10k1 driver supports the following sound cards: > > o Creative SoundBlaster Live! (EMU10K1 Chipset) > o Creative SoundBlaster Audigy (EMU10K2 Chipset) > o Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (EMU10K2 Chipset) > o Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (EMU10K3 Chipset) > > I'm not sure if this is the right one, because I can't find the type of > chip used in the SE on the Creative site. The Audigy SE (24bit/96khz) isn't among the supported cards. I bought this= =20 card some time ago because it was dirt cheap, only to discover that there w= as=20 no native freebsd driver for it. The chip is different from the standard=20 Audigy. I have to say, the windows drivers sucked too. It is now collecting= =20 dust in my hardware bin :) > > Roland
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