Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:20:57 -0400 From: "Potts, Ross" <rpotts@harris.com> To: 'Jud' <Jud@operamail.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Newbie - Install New (Linux?) Audio Drivers? Message-ID: <95B669A7D872D41182A600508BDFFB8C12D5EE@mlbmx7.ess.harris.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Price won't be a problem, because those cards are OOLLLDDDD. I don't think modern creative cards have the controller on them any more. The SBLive! has a controller looking pinout but it is actually for the expansion board that has all tose doodads in the front of the PC(SBLive Gold or Patinum or something like that) > -----Original Message----- > From: Jud [SMTP:Jud@operamail.com] > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 1:42 PM > To: Potts, Ross; Alfred Perlstein > Cc: freebsd-questions > Subject: RE: Newbie - Install New (Linux?) Audio Drivers? > > Thanks to both of you for replying. Ross, I hope you're wrong about not > getting rid of the problem. :) (If that means a new card, I hope it's an > inexpensive one.) > > I enabled sound by adding device pcm to my kernel and MAKEDEVing the snd0 > device in /dev. > > Regarding "apps for sound," the effects I described are always present at > least from the time I start XFree86 (formerly 3.3.6, now 4.0.1) - whether it's > > X by itself, e.g. during configuration, or with a desktop and/or window > manager (formerly Gnome+Sawfish, now Icewm). I don't recall whether the > effects occur when I'm in terminal mode after boot but before startx (sorry, > not at my home machine right now). > > When I had used Gnome+Sawfish I had sound effects for window events enabled; > now with Icewm I don't. I ran a cd player app from Gnome occasionally with > G+S; with Icewm I've tried running xcdplayer but it tells me I don't have a CD > > loaded (think I need to configure it to look at acd0c instead of wherever it's > > looking, but that's a different problem). > > Jud > > > >===== Original Message From "Potts, Ross" <rpotts@harris.com> ===== > >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] > [snip] > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?95B669A7D872D41182A600508BDFFB8C12D5EE>