Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:31:08 +0200 From: "Konstantin Dimitrov" <kosio.dimitrov@gmail.com> To: "Scott Spare" <scuppers@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: snd_envy24(4) and snd_envy24ht(4) MFC Message-ID: <8103ad500701230231q72163450tb325865548b1af7f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <daaab7120701210733v40a257ebkbd5012244c73b679@mail.gmail.com> References: <daaab7120701210733v40a257ebkbd5012244c73b679@mail.gmail.com>
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it is still unknown how AK5385A is wired on M-Audio Audiophile 192, so it is good to know, that you are ready to help, thank you for that On 1/21/07, Scott Spare <scuppers@gmail.com> wrote: > In reference to the snd_envy24 drivers and card, I have an M-Audio > Audiophile 192 which I will be very happy to test new drivers on or to get > hardware info as needed. > > The way I understand it, however this card is the one that has already been > tested the most, so I don't know how valuable that will be. > > I hope others reading this list can agree - soundcard driver development is > a valuable step toward helping FreeBSD into the multimedia realm. > > The M-Audio cards are very nice for entry-level recording studio and > audiophile multimedia application and maybe for home theater and home stereo > applications. FreeBSD is rock-solid and non-resource intensive in its > default state. Also great fun for gearheads ;-) Seems a good match. > > The machine I have with the envy-based card is currently running "that other > company's OS" but am considering a MythTV setup running Wine for those > cases where that's necessary. I will need to do most of my testing in a > VMWare box early on, since it's the primary computer at this point. > > There would be something really cool about having three BSD boxen here. > Snapstream was the killer app for the DVR, but recently has hit all kinds of > trouble... Gaming may make the whole "Windows-extraction effort" > difficult. The main game I'm playing has copy-protection which doesn't work > and play well with Wine. (the game's Psychonauts - it's a great game) > > Hitting snags currently with console apps and the mixer. More specifically, > the mixer doesn't control the volume on shell-fm . That's on a different > card (the emu_10k based one) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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