From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 11:23:20 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA12426 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:23:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from user.netwalk.com (dh2@user.netwalk.com [205.156.197.170]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA12418 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dh2@localhost) by user.netwalk.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA15418; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 14:22:54 -0500 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 14:22:53 -0500 From: dh2@netwalk.com (Randall Hopper) To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound card recomendations for FreeBSD References: <199612292305.RAA18899@nexgen.HiWAAY.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: rhh@ct.picker.com Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk dkelly@hiwaay.net: |Randall Hopper said: |> If you want good all-around sound support in all operating systems, |> IMO you can't do better than a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 32 or AWE32. |> Full SB32/AWE32, Sound Blaster 16, and Sound Blaster compatibility. |> Virtually any OS driver or DOS program that has any level of sound support |> at all (above PC speaker, that is :-) supports at least one of these |> feature sets. |> The only case I think you might be tempted toward another sound card |> might be if you want to give up generally good all-around support in favor | |Good all-around support meaning what? Functionality? Microsoft support? Beyond what I mentioned, solid FreeBSD support for all card functions I'm aware of except full-duplex (full-duplex is supported their 'doze 3.1 and '95 drivers though; www.creaf.com/wwwnew/tech/faqs/qna0001.html). And it would be hard to say the Sound Blaster class of sound cards aren't the most widely supported across other operating systems (DOS programs/games, Linux, 'doze 3.1/95/NT, etc.). Until FreeBSD develops a larger commercial following, that continues to be important to me. |> of full duplex audio under FreeBSD specifically (for MBone, Internet Voice, |> etc.). As of yet, the FreeBSD soundblaster sound drivers don't support |> full-duplex PCM. The GUS sound driver does (other cards may as well). | |I too have heard the GUS card was the best supported sound card under |FreeBSD. But I don't know what a GUS card is, or where it can be found. |Hint. Hint. Sorry, GUS = Gravis Ultrasound. For more info on GUSs, you might surf the Search... link off the freebsd home page -- search the multimedia group for GUS. Good luck with your research. Randall Hopper