From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 27 10: 0:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corpmx1.ess.harris.com (corpmx1.ess.harris.com [130.41.65.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C861437B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by corpmx1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:00:21 -0400 Message-ID: <95B669A7D872D41182A600508BDFFB8C12D5ED@mlbmx7.ess.harris.com> From: "Potts, Ross" To: 'Alfred Perlstein' , Jud Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Newbie - Install New (Linux?) Audio Drivers? Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:00:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sometimes you can't get rid of the "motorboat sound". I think it has to do with electrical fields being close to the card. I get the same sound out of my onboard sound(ESS 1888) -----Original Message----- From: Alfred Perlstein [SMTP:bright@wintelcom.net] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 12:44 PM To: Jud Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie - Install New (Linux?) Audio Drivers? * Jud [001027 09:10] wrote: > Have had FreeBSD 4.1 installed for a bit over a month now; my first Unix. > Have installed some packages - XFree86 4.0.1 a couple of nights ago was my > first successful upgrade of installed software. Have compiled & installed > custom kernel a number of times. So that's the general state of my "skill > level." > > I have a SB PCI 16 sound card (sold OEM in some Gateway boxes as SB PCI 64D, > a/k/a Ensoniq Audio PCI or something like that). Get constant bkgd > static-type noise, which can be minimized by fiddling with speaker wires but > never goes away. Also, moving my cursor makes a sound like a small motorboat. > > Would a different audio driver help? I've been looking at ALSA and OSS stuff > for Linux. Will Linux drivers work with FreeBSD? Where should a new audio > driver be installed? Linux drivers will not work on FreeBSD, OSS might work, but it's probably a better idea to let us know exactly how you have enabled sound and what apps you are using for sound. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message