From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 7 7: 9:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C713737B400 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 07:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFDE743E42 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 07:09:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 335264FC97; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:03:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF334A0E; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:03:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:03:55 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: bsd@xtremedev.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I make my Soundblaster Live! work under FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <20020907023236.F63738-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 bsd@xtremedev.com wrote: > Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 02:35:42 -0600 (MDT) > From: bsd@xtremedev.com > Subject: Re: How do I make my Soundblaster Live! work under FreeBSD? > > > freebsd makes great servers. freebsd also makes great desktops. take a > > look sometime at the hundreds of audio, video, etc. ports in the ports > > tree. there's support for video-capture/editing, surround sound, dsp, > > and some good music composition and sequencing packages. people have > > done some pretty impressive work making freebsd do all sorts of wacky > > things. all my desktops are fbsd machines. > > > > focusing on the system as a server is fine, but implying that somebody > > was misusing freebsd by wanting to have a sound card that worked was > > what got fingers pointed at you. > > > > -Adam > > Implying? I only asked how well it was progressing with high fidelity > sound support. Is everyone so paranoid about trolls that they jump at > anything now? I want the SB Live! to work with FreeBSD as much as the > original poster, especially the digital part. But just because I don't > take daily counts of sound apps in ports (which have NOTHING to do with > knowing whether or not digital support exists with the SB Live!) doesn't > mean I assume everyone that uses FreeBSD other than as a server was > misusing it. > I've found the FBSD support for my (cheap) SBLive! to be ok. No digital, haven't tried, don't care. I can however (using e.g.) Audacity sample incoming analog signals at 44k which is great for peeling individual tracks off my 4-track. The *major* shortfall in BSD and Linux with my card is that I can't play back a track in Audacity while recording a new one at the same time. I think this is a limitation of the driver, not the card. I can use it for playing several audio streams at once, but the restriction above makes it hard to do multi-track work. I haven't tried ALAS yet, I will this Fall. I'm considering getting a professional recording card, supported by ALSA, like a Hammerfalle. The SBLive! support is ok (music and Kohan sound great!) but it is limited. Very easy to install, though no real post-install configuration/alteration that I know of. Cheers - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message