From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 00:52:21 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E3816A417 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:52:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from smtp.utwente.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:610:1908:1000:204:23ff:feb7:ef56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C3B13C48A for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:52:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from lux.student.utwente.nl (lux.student.utwente.nl [130.89.170.81]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l9O0qCUo019449; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:52:12 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:52:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20071023180756.GC3981@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20071023180756.GC3981@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710240252.12104.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact helpdesk@ITBE.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Roland Smith Subject: Re: Buying new sound card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:52:21 -0000 On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:29:34PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > Pieter de Goeje 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