From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Dec 13 22:44:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA14912 for multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 22:44:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA14895; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 22:43:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id GAA01071; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 06:17:36 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199712140517.GAA01071@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: looking for a decent Soundcard To: braukmann@tse-online.de (Andreas Braukmann) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 06:17:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19971213212305.27688@paert.tse-online.de> from "Andreas Braukmann" at Dec 13, 97 09:22:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello, > > I'm just thinking of stuffing a decent sound-card into my > FreeBSD workstation and wondering which soundcard to choose. ... > To make a long story short: I'm looking for a sound-card with decent > quality of sound (and signals ...) supported by FreeBSD, the not sure what do you mean by "signals" but if you want a cheap product with decent quality go for the Crystal CS4237-based boards (e.g. AOpen AW35). 16-bit full duplex and fully supported by my driver, it is great for audioconferencing and listening music. I have heard that they have very good drivers for Win95, no idea for NT. Yamaha OPL-SA3 should also be good ones. The OPTI931 (I see many of these boards here in italy) also works and it's dirt cheap, but it's S/N ratio is very bad compared to the above cards. Still, for their price, you probably don't care... [this is in addition to Amancio's suggestion for a PCI card, which at the moment is unsupported though, and I am not sure how easy are they to find in europe] Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________