Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:21:17 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE Message-ID: <475875DD.8000506@math.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <200712061322.40986.kstewart@owt.com> References: <200712061322.40986.kstewart@owt.com>
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Kent Stewart wrote: > I had the sound card in my primary FreeBSD user system go bad on me. > When I went shopping for a replacement sound card for an old system, > the only thing I could see that didn't take too much of my cpu > horsepower was the Audigy SE. It seems to be the generic sound card > that you can purchase in a Best Buy or such electronic store. It isn't > in FreeBSD-6-stable. I think it is the equivalent of the old emu10k1 or > 2. It needs to be addressed. > > A pciconf shows the following > > none1@pci0:17:0: class=0x040100 card=0x100a1102 chip=0x00071102 > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Creative Technology LTD.' > device = 'C6SB0410515017656A Audigy SE' > class = multimedia > subclass = audio > > None of these generic cards seem to have been added for 2 or 3 years. > This specific card was pr-ed a long time ago. We are really running > behind the curve. > > Kent > > It is supported by /usr/ports/audio/oss in full duplex mode. I am using it. It would be really nice to add support for a low end cards like that into the kernel but I am not a developer. I think I saw somewhere that there was something strange about that particular card. OSS for a long time could not support it in full-duplex mode necessary for VoIP. Cheers, Predrag
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