Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 14:38:22 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: low cost consultant (?) Message-ID: <20000504.14382200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005032201530.50059-100000@home.offwhite.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005032201530.50059-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 5/4/00, 4:17:58 AM, Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> wrote regarding RE: low cost consultant: <snip> > After reading several web pages and emails about getting a sound card to > work I have yet to get mine to work once again. I know what I have but > that does not seem to help. It is a PCI card, sb16 and PnP. Nothing I > seem to do will get it to work. And it may just be that sound is working > and my problem with X dieing is simply an X problem. <snip> > The reason I have a home box is so I can learn, but what I have learned > about sound card configuration is that is simply not easy given that > the existing documentation is not helping me, even though I know my > hardware works, because it was before I did a new re-install of 3.4. I > have been told 4.0 has made great advances in making sound card > configuration much easier. <snip> > FreeBSD is my choice and I am determined to get it working one way or > another. Dear Brennan Stehling, On the one hand, I can understand your reasons, and I even sympathize with you; on the other, I am afraid that you miss some points, and that you have somehow lost your patience. As an aside, I am running, among other things, *three* FreeBSD systems on my (single) homebox, viz 3.4-S, 4.S and 5-CURRENT, and I had to configure my SB AWE 64 (ISA) under all of them. Not to mention the fact that I had configured it under Linux. Mind you, in all of those cases, it was NOT very difficult; it only involved a little work and a little RTFM at large. I faced the FreeBSD problems one Saturday afternoon, and tried a couple of solutions; I had an epistolary exchange with one person in this list, and our experience got posted. Although I did find working solutions for my sound card, at the beginning of my search I was well aware that I could even find NO solution at all. Personally, I see FreeBSD as a *server* and *workstation* OS albeit I have also been (ab)using it as a desktop -- an excellent desktop for that matter. Accordingly, I consider sound support as an "added bonus." Please note: I do like Music, in particular, *classical* composers, and I do like listening to them (especially Bach) while at my homebox console. The fact that some Linux distros are developing the *desktop* side of the OS will probably ... stimulate some of the FreeBSD guys to improve FreeBSD sound support :-) But please always keep in mind that the dreaded sound support is definitely NOT the primary goal of the FreeBSD Project. That being said, I would suggest changing your attitude a little. Rather than risk getting flamed you will get far more help and far more constructive responses. If anybody has that PCI card and has actually made it work, he/she will be glad to help you. Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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