Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 05:02:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> To: pieter@degoeje.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: will Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA ever be supported? Message-ID: <200905221002.n4MA2Fgo016570@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:19 +0200 Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>
wrote:
>On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:11:27 Scott Bennett wrote:
>> Looking at the release notes for 7.2-RELEASE, I still don't see any
>> mention of support for the Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA card. Do any
>> of the developers know whether there is any plan ever to support this card?
>> I've been waiting and hoping for over three years already, but haven't seen
>> any news other than "No, there's no driver support for in in FreeBSD
>> [67].x". Thanks in advance for any information on this matter.
>
>I assume you've tried both the snd_emu10k1 and the snd_emu10kx drivers.
I had hoped to install 7.2-RELEASE a few days ago, but will probably not
get to it now until this weekend. In the meantime, I'm still running 6.3.
In 6.x, if snd_emu10k1_load="YES" is present in /boot/loader.conf, the kernel
fails during driver initialization. snd_emu10kx does not exist in 6.x. Is
there some undocumented support for this card in 7.2?
>You should be able to get your sound card working by installing 4Front's OSS
>driver:
>http://www.opensound.com/oss.html
>
Thank you *very* much! I just downloaded the FreeBSD .tbz file and the
installation guide. I'll probably still give the native drivers a trial first,
but if they don't work, then I'll try this one. I had no idea that the Open
Sound project existed, so thanks again.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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