From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 22 19:24:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C6D37BA3D for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:24:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A42A21C4D; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:24:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:24:28 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola To: deimos Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does "Voxware still supported in 4.0" mean exactly? Message-ID: <20000322222428.E25438@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <24057.953780938@zippy.cdrom.com> <38D98CD6.BFAB40BD@lewman.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38D98CD6.BFAB40BD@lewman.org>; from deimos@lewman.org on Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:17:42PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:17:42PM -0500, deimos wrote: > What about those of us with AWE64 GOLD boards? The board itself does > quite well with most PCI based boards available today. As for upgrades, > would a Vibra16 really count as an upgrade? > > If we're going to be forced to use newer boards, what about > SoundBlaster Live, Diamond Fusion, and other modern Aureal/Dolby based > PCI sound boards? Will pcm support those out of the box, or are we now > going to have to wait for some other driver to be developed? > > I'm all for progress, but I fail to see how going from my AWE64GOLD to > a Vibra16 (or another lesser sound card) is going to be worth anything. > If I'm going to be forced to ugprade, I'd rather get state of the art > today; hoping it will last another 3 years as my current card has. pcm0: port 0xdcc0-0xdcff irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci1 SB64 works fine for me, I'm currently listening to 'RATM - No Shelter' and it sounds great. A beta SBLive driver is available right now, and new card drivers have been coming in at a steady pace since Cameron took over. Extracting datasheets from corporate whores is the largest roadblock at this point. Naturally, your patches are just as welcome as anyone elses. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org Office: 800-252-2421 x128 / Cell: 248-761-7272 PS. the voxware drivers aren't the answer either. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message