Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:21:06 -0600 From: Ash <omniBSD@speakeasy.net> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: Derrick Edwards <dantavious@comcast.net> Subject: Re: Sounblaster Live Card Message-ID: <41ABA0D2.5080209@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <41AB90B2.7000405@gmx.net> References: <200411290100.43354.dantavious@comcast.net> <200411291353.10528.dantavious@comcast.net> <20041129184427.GE24413@pir.net> <200411291407.15769.dantavious@comcast.net> <41AB90B2.7000405@gmx.net>
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Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Derrick Edwards wrote: > >> That sucks because it says on the box "Creative Sound Blaster >> Live! 24-bit". Is there a better way of picking one? > > > The sblive driver oly supports rather early models of SB Live and SB > Audigy cards. Since Creative keeps revising their hardware rather > rapidly, it might not be easy finding hardware that works with the > available drivers. Usually Creative uses the older revisions of their > chips in the budget-products, so I'd start looking there. > > I may not make friends for suggestion this, but the OpenSound drivers have worked nicely for me. I have an older (i.e. natively supported) SB LIVE! card, but was having minor problems with it after upgrading to 5.3. Being short on time, I downloaded the appropriate driver from http://www.opensound.com/. It works nicely, and allows me to use features of the card that I wouldn't be able to utilize with the native snd_emu10k1(4) module. The latest release of OpenSound drivers are free for non-commercial use, with a caveat: Supposedly some sort of message will be played on your card when it's idle. I have no idea what the sound is, as my sound card is never idle thanks to xmms. Good luck, -Ash
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